Project
[01] Butterfly Plan I 👀
2021
Creative background：👉🏻︎
Exhibition： 👉🏻︎
I grew up in a small town in China. When I was a child, I could always find lots of butterflies in the garden and in the forest. But as I grew up, I later left my hometown. hometown. Slowly, I can no longer see swarms of butterflies flying in the big city made of of reinforced concrete and earth. At one point I thought it was a normal thing. But then I went back to my hometown and found that tall buildings So I found out that the swarms of butterflies may have left me. might have left me.
Later, I came from China to study in a small town in Germany. The city has a large forest, and I saw a lot of butterflies flying. Unfortunately, their variety is still very small. I tried to find and count their species in the forest, but after searching for a long time, I can only find 3 kinds of butterflies. And only one species of white butterfly is abundant, the others are pitifully rare, so I started looking for information about butterflies on the internet. Wikipedia's introduction to butterflies and insects says: "Declines in butterfly populations have been observed in many areas of the world, and this phenomenon is consistent with rapidly declining insect populations around the world.
The reason for the continuing disappearance of insects such as butterflies is unclear, but factors thought to be important include habitat destruction caused by intensive agriculture and urbanisation, pesticide use, introduced species, climate change, eutrophication from fertilisers, pollution and artificial lighting.
The increased use of insecticides and herbicides on crops has not only affected non-target insect species, but also the plants on which they feed. Climate change and the introduction of exotic species that compete with native species put native species under stress, making them more susceptible to pathogens and parasites. Plants grow faster in the presence of increased CO2, but the resulting plant biomass contains fewer nutrients. While some species such as flies and cockroaches may increase as a result, the overall biomass of insects is estimated to decrease by about 0.9 to 2.5% per year.
我在中国的一个小镇长大。小时候，我总能在花园和森林里发现许多蝴蝶。但随着我长大后离开了家乡。慢慢地，在由钢筋混凝土和土地构成的大城市中，我再也看不到成群的蝴蝶飞舞。在很长一段时间我本能的忽视以为这是正常的。但后来我回到了家乡，发现高楼大厦已经遍地都是。那时我发现，成群的蝴蝶可能已经离我而去了。
后来，我从中国来到德国的一个小城继续我的学业。这个小城有一个片茂密的森林，夏天的时候我看到很多蝴蝶在飞舞。不幸的是，它们的种类还是非常少。我试图在森林里找到并计数它们的种类，但经过长时间的寻找，也只能找到勉强找到3种。只有一种白色蝴蝶很多，其他的则可怜地稀少，于是我开始在互联网上寻找关于蝴蝶的信息。维基百科对蝴蝶和昆虫的介绍说：“世界许多地区都观察到蝴蝶种群的减少，这一现象与全球迅速减少的昆虫种群一致。
导致蝴蝶等昆虫持续消失的原因尚不清楚，但认为重要的因素包括由于集约农业和城市化造成的栖息地破坏、农药使用、引入物种、气候变化、化肥引起的富营养化、污染和人造光照。农作物上农药和除草剂的增加使用不仅影响了非目标昆虫物种，也影响了它们所依赖的植物。气候变化和引入的外来物种与本地物种竞争，使本地物种承受压力，使它们更易受到病原体和寄生虫的侵害。在二氧化碳增加的情况下，植物生长更快，但所产生的植物生物量中的营养成分较少。虽然一些物种如苍蝇和蟑螂可能因此而增加，但总体估计昆虫的生物量每年减少约0.9至2.5%。
Lumen Prize （UK）🏆
2024 Impact Award Finalists
︎Project: Timed art installation
︎Project Cycle：4 months
︎Size: 2450 x 1400mm
On 22 May 2007, the United Nations announced that 75 species go extinct worldwide every day, and three species go extinct per hour. Butterfly species are an essential indicator data for monitoring the global ecology. In 2004, a science journal noted that the UK had seen a 54% decline in native bird species, a 28% decline in native wildlife species, and a staggering 71% decline in native butterfly species in the last 40 years. Insects that have always been considered to be diverse and numerous, with a high capacity for recovery, are also beginning to face extinction. Meanwhile, in Australia, half of the 24 species of butterfly included in the study will disappear forever in the years to come.
This is related to many factors, such as the destruction of vegetation, accelerated urbanization, and the increase in urban population. In urban construction, some of the original vegetation has been replaced by artificial vegetation, with a single species of vegetation and a relatively fixed diet for the vast majority of butterfly species. This has led to a rapid decline in butterfly species, despite the high proportion of artificial vegetation cover.
The Butterfly Project is based on integrating the documentary and real-time data to demonstrate the impact of human development on species diversity visually. Through this project, the threats and difficulties faced by species diversity today are highlighted. In the project, butterflies randomly swing their wings three times per hour, with each wing swing signifying that a species has left the earth forever. Papilio Chikae, a critically endangered species unique to the Philippines, was chosen as the butterfly prototype for the project. It is also CITES-listed, and its specimens once sold for up to US$1,500. The collection and sale of its specimens are strictly prohibited in the Philippines.
（The project is undergoing optimization.🛠️）
2007 年 5 月 22 日，联合国宣布全世界每天有 75 个物种灭绝，每小时有 3 个物种灭绝。蝴蝶物种是监测全球生态的重要指标数据。2004 年，一份科学杂志指出，在过去的 40 年里，英国本土鸟类物种减少了 54%，本土野生动物物种减少了 28%，本土蝴蝶物种更是减少了 71%。一直被认为种类繁多、数量众多、恢复能力强的昆虫也开始面临灭绝。与此同时，在澳大利亚，研究中包括的 24 种蝴蝶中，有一半将在未来几年永远消失。
这与植被破坏、城市化进程加快、城市人口增加等多种因素有关。在城市建设中，部分原有植被被人工植被取代，植被种类单一，绝大多数蝴蝶种类的食性相对固定。这导致尽管人工植被覆盖率很高，但依然导致蝴蝶种类迅速减少。
蝴蝶项目以整合文献资料和实时数据为基础，直观地展示人类发展对物种多样性的影响。通过这个项目，物种多样性如今所面临的威胁和困难得以凸显。在该项目中，蝴蝶每小时随机时间执行4次命令（每次煽动4个来回），每一次执行命令，就意味着一个物种永远离开了地球。Papilio Chikae 是菲律宾特有的极度濒危物种，被选为该项目的蝴蝶原型。它也被列入《濒危野生动植物种国际贸易公约》（CITES），其标本售价曾高达 1 500 美元。菲律宾严禁采集和出售其标本。
（项目目前正在进行优化中🔧️）
︎Project Cycle：4 months
︎Size: 2450 x 1400mm
On 22 May 2007, the United Nations announced that 75 species go extinct worldwide every day, and three species go extinct per hour. Butterfly species are an essential indicator data for monitoring the global ecology. In 2004, a science journal noted that the UK had seen a 54% decline in native bird species, a 28% decline in native wildlife species, and a staggering 71% decline in native butterfly species in the last 40 years. Insects that have always been considered to be diverse and numerous, with a high capacity for recovery, are also beginning to face extinction. Meanwhile, in Australia, half of the 24 species of butterfly included in the study will disappear forever in the years to come.
This is related to many factors, such as the destruction of vegetation, accelerated urbanization, and the increase in urban population. In urban construction, some of the original vegetation has been replaced by artificial vegetation, with a single species of vegetation and a relatively fixed diet for the vast majority of butterfly species. This has led to a rapid decline in butterfly species, despite the high proportion of artificial vegetation cover.
The Butterfly Project is based on integrating the documentary and real-time data to demonstrate the impact of human development on species diversity visually. Through this project, the threats and difficulties faced by species diversity today are highlighted. In the project, butterflies randomly swing their wings three times per hour, with each wing swing signifying that a species has left the earth forever. Papilio Chikae, a critically endangered species unique to the Philippines, was chosen as the butterfly prototype for the project. It is also CITES-listed, and its specimens once sold for up to US$1,500. The collection and sale of its specimens are strictly prohibited in the Philippines.
（The project is undergoing optimization.🛠️）
2007 年 5 月 22 日，联合国宣布全世界每天有 75 个物种灭绝，每小时有 3 个物种灭绝。蝴蝶物种是监测全球生态的重要指标数据。2004 年，一份科学杂志指出，在过去的 40 年里，英国本土鸟类物种减少了 54%，本土野生动物物种减少了 28%，本土蝴蝶物种更是减少了 71%。一直被认为种类繁多、数量众多、恢复能力强的昆虫也开始面临灭绝。与此同时，在澳大利亚，研究中包括的 24 种蝴蝶中，有一半将在未来几年永远消失。
这与植被破坏、城市化进程加快、城市人口增加等多种因素有关。在城市建设中，部分原有植被被人工植被取代，植被种类单一，绝大多数蝴蝶种类的食性相对固定。这导致尽管人工植被覆盖率很高，但依然导致蝴蝶种类迅速减少。
蝴蝶项目以整合文献资料和实时数据为基础，直观地展示人类发展对物种多样性的影响。通过这个项目，物种多样性如今所面临的威胁和困难得以凸显。在该项目中，蝴蝶每小时随机时间执行4次命令（每次煽动4个来回），每一次执行命令，就意味着一个物种永远离开了地球。Papilio Chikae 是菲律宾特有的极度濒危物种，被选为该项目的蝴蝶原型。它也被列入《濒危野生动植物种国际贸易公约》（CITES），其标本售价曾高达 1 500 美元。菲律宾严禁采集和出售其标本。
（项目目前正在进行优化中🔧️）