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［誤會］

漢字因其神秘感和東方視覺魅力,成為遠東風情中不可或缺的元素。在18世紀法國的中國熱（Chinoiserie），漢字往往是不可解讀的,外國畫家似乎對字義本身並不重視,而更着重漢字的視覺形式,以及它們在構圖中的美感作用。漢字作為一種裝飾,而非真實的文字。這種將漢字形式與內涵劃分的態度,體現了遠東風情系列的誤解。

然而，漢字本由象形圖開始，是次系列錯誤地用AI將「誤會」一詞圖象化，不斷將「誤」字和「會」字重覆地輸入和輸出，「誤會」如AI製圖是可控又不可控，不可解讀的漢字成為推崇奇怪的遠東風情精髓。「誤」和「會」的視覺形態被再三輸入AI圖像演算程式中，最後令人無法辨認，「誤會」一詞背後所代表的意義被重新審視和重塑。

[Misunderstandings]

Due to their sense of mystery and Eastern visual charm, Chinese characters have become an indispensable element in Far Eastern aesthetics. In the 18th-century French "Chinoiserie" trend, these characters were often indecipherable, and foreign painters seemed to care little about their meanings, focusing instead on their visual form and the aesthetic effect they had in compositions. Chinese characters were treated more as decoration than as real text. This attitude of separating the form of the characters from their content reflects a misunderstanding of Far Eastern aesthetics.

However, Chinese characters originally began as pictographs. In this series, AI mistakenly turns the word "misunderstanding" into a visual representation by repeatedly inputting and outputting the characters for "mis" (誤) and "understanding" (會). As an AI-generated image, "misunderstanding" becomes both controllable and uncontrollable, with indecipherable characters becoming the essence of a strange Far Eastern aesthetic. The visual forms of "mis" and "understanding" are input into the AI image algorithm multiple times, eventually becoming unrecognizable. As a result, the meaning behind the term "misunderstanding" is re-examined and reshaped.