Cao Shu | The Cycle of Sheep | Metal, reflective material, light from lighthouse | 7.8✖0.6✖0.6m | specific field installation | 2020 | Image source, artist

The light column of this lighthouse has been rotating in the ocean for 150 years. It is like the son of Poseidon, a one eyed giant. His eye will be illuminated wherever he can, and the rest of the world is hidden in the dark. I use the light of the lighthouse in the night to form visual residual images. With a beam of light scanning, I can see that the sheep's installation on the roof has an illusion of walking. There are a lot of wild sheep on the island. They breed by themselves. Travelers can often see them jumping on rocks on the edge of the heavy cliff when climbing mountains. In Homer's epic, Odysseus was caught on the belly of a sheep and was able to escape from the cave of the one eyed giant. The sheep on the roof is forever trapped in a cycle of a few seconds due to the cycling of the lighthouse columns.

曹澍 |《羊的循环》| 金属，反光材料，灯塔的光 | 7.8✖0.6✖0.6m | 特定场域装置 | 2020 |图片来源，艺术家

作者利用夜幕里灯塔的光形成一段视觉残留的影像，随着一束光扫过，会看到房顶上的羊的装置有一种正在行走的错觉。这座灯塔的光柱已经在海上连续旋转了150年，夜幕里酷似一个独眼巨人——海王波塞冬的儿子，他的目光所及之处会被照亮，其余部分的世界都隐藏在黑暗里。岛上有很多野生的羊，它们自我繁殖，在悬崖边的岩石上跳跃。荷马史诗中，奥德修斯正是扒在羊的肚子上，得以从独眼巨人的洞窟逃走。由于灯塔光柱的循环往复，这只房顶的羊永远困在一段几秒钟的循环动作里。