用谷歌翻译，从简体中文到英文再从英文到中文翻译一篇随笔，循环往复直到文本不再受翻译影响。共翻译十二次。 Use Google translate to translate an essay from Simplified Chinese to English and then from English to Chinese , and loop back until the text is no longer affected by the translation. Twelve times in total.

The piece is an artist book I made out of an essay that I translated 12 times between Mandarin and English through Google Translate. The book is made of tracing paper and all characters hand-copied from the pages.document. By juxtaposing the trivial sentiment of the essay and handwriting with the rigid functionality of the mechanical translator, I aim to open up a discussion on the over-estimated positivity on technology and multi-cultural globalization. It is my intention to further develop this work into a computer programme, where, when you input a text, it will produce an alteration of the text after the same translating process.

I had a piece of poetry writing of mine, google translated it from Mandarin to English. Then from English to Mandarin. The second Mandarin piece is a bit different from the original text. Thus I repeated the back-and-forward process until the text does not alter itself anymore. Twelve times translation was done and documented. I hand-copied the documentation of the process on tracing paper and made it into an artist book. In this book, the small alterations between texts show themselves as shadow-like smudge, adding another layer of the experience of the work.

artist book, A5, tracing paper 20 pages