褪去色彩的山水是未经参与者干预的客观空间。墨燕停留在画面之中，等待外部行为唤醒数据流动。The desaturated landscape is an objective space before intervention. The ink swallow rests within it, waiting for an external action to awaken the flow of data.
作品以“看山是山—看山不是山—看山还是山”为叙事闭环：黑白山水代表休眠的客观空间，高饱和度笔刷创造墨燕可进入的区域，低饱和度水波剥夺其路径，而“归一”手势让画面重返最初的山水。The work follows a three-part loop: mountains are mountains, mountains are no longer mountains, and mountains are mountains again. Monochrome landscape marks dormancy; saturated brushes create paths; desaturated waves remove them; a unifying gesture returns the image to its origin.
从赋予空间，到放下控制。FROM CREATING SPACE TO RELEASING CONTROL.
高饱和笔刷创造飞行区域，水波纹清除饱和度并收窄边界。晕染与扩散让每次控制都留下不可完全抹除的痕迹。Saturated brushes create flight zones; ripples remove saturation and narrow their boundaries. Bleeding and diffusion make every act of control leave a trace that cannot be fully erased.
竖起食指触发全局重置，人工干预消解，黑白山水重新浮现。参与者从执着塑造转向主动清空。A raised index finger triggers a global reset. Intervention dissolves and the monochrome landscape returns, shifting the visitor from persistent shaping to deliberate release.
休眠山水DORMANT LANDSCAPE行为输入BEHAVIOR INPUT色彩空间COLOR FIELD墨燕响应SWALLOW RESPONSE归一重置RESET
青绿山水不是背景，而是等待被唤醒的空间。THE BLUE-GREEN LANDSCAPE IS NOT A BACKDROP, BUT A SPACE WAITING TO AWAKEN.
作品没有直接呈现一幅色彩完整的山水画，而是从青绿山水原图中提取山峦、水系与色层关系，再通过褪色和重置将其转化为灰白底稿。未经参与者介入时，连绵山峦只保留水墨明暗与基本轮廓，构成一种安静、克制、近乎休眠的初始状态。Rather than presenting a fully colored painting, the work extracts mountains, waterways and color layers from the original image, then transforms them into a pale ground through desaturation. Before intervention, only ink-like tonal values and contours remain, creating a quiet, restrained and nearly dormant state.
参与者开始涂抹后，色彩不再只是覆盖画面的装饰，而成为系统能够读取的空间数据。绘入高饱和色彩，等同于创造墨燕可以进入的区域；抹去饱和度，则意味着撤回或限制这片空间。因此，每次观看都会生成一幅不同的山水，也生成一次不同的行为叙事。Once painting begins, color becomes spatial data the system can read. Adding saturation creates territory the swallow may enter; removing it withdraws or restricts that territory. Every viewing produces a different landscape and a different behavioral narrative.
原图提取ELEMENT EXTRACTIONELEMENT EXTRACTION色彩褪去DESATURATIONDESATURATION空间休眠DORMANT FIELDDORMANT FIELD行为唤醒BEHAVIORAL AWAKENINGBEHAVIORAL AWAKENING
文化转译CULTURAL TRANSLATION
从传统燕形纸鸢到数字生命。FROM A TRADITIONAL SWALLOW KITE TO A DIGITAL LIFEFORM.
墨燕纸鸢并非对传统形态的直接复制。设计提取燕形纸鸢的对称骨架、展开翼形、中心轴与尾部方向性，保留易于辨认的文化轮廓，再将复杂纹样压缩为适合实时影像的色块与线性结构。最终形象既能在高速运动中保持识别度，也能够承载声音、位置与飞行边界等实时数据。The digital swallow is not a direct copy of its traditional form. Its symmetrical frame, spread wings, central axis and tail direction are extracted and simplified into color blocks and linear structures suitable for real-time imagery. The result remains recognizable in motion while carrying sound, position and boundary data.
- 01文化原型CULTURAL ARCHETYPE观察传统燕形纸鸢的轮廓、骨架与装饰秩序。Study the outline, frame and ornament of the traditional swallow kite.
- 02结构提取STRUCTURE提炼展开翼形、对称中轴和尾部方向关系。Extract the wings, symmetrical axis and directional tail.
- 03形体简化SIMPLIFICATION减少细碎构件，使形象适应屏幕运动与实时识别。Reduce small details for screen motion and real-time recognition.
- 04色彩转译COLOR TRANSLATION将传统装饰转化为高对比色块与数字视觉语言。Translate ornament into high-contrast color and digital language.
- 05数字生命DIGITAL LIFE接入位置、声音和画面边界，形成具有自主性的墨燕。Connect position, sound and boundaries to create an autonomous swallow.
LIVE WEB EXPERIENCE
移动鼠标，亲手唤醒墨燕生境。MOVE THE CURSOR AND AWAKEN THE HABITAT.
原装置使用摄像头与声音输入；网页版本将手势轨迹转换为鼠标轨迹，并扩展为五种晕染视觉状态。The original installation uses camera and audio input. This web edition translates gesture into cursor movement and expands it into five diffused visual states.
移动鼠标，晕染山水
MOUSE AS BRUSH移动鼠标直接绘制；触摸屏按住并滑动
每一种笔刷，都是一次空间态度。EACH BRUSH EXPRESSES A DIFFERENT ATTITUDE TOWARD SPACE.
赛博数码笔刷CYBER DIGITAL BRUSH
以高饱和的碎片化色块写入画面。系统将其识别为可进入区域，在叙事中对应开放、给予和对数字空间的扩张。Fragmented, saturated color enters the image as accessible territory, representing openness, giving and the expansion of digital space.
彩色山石笔刷COLORED LANDSCAPE BRUSH
重新唤醒青绿山水原有的颜色与层次。参与者绘制的不只是颜色，也是墨燕可以飞行和停留的新路径。The brush restores the landscape’s original colors and layers. Visitors paint not only pigment, but new paths where the swallow may fly and rest.
海浪波纹笔刷WAVE RIPPLE BRUSH
将已有区域的饱和度压低至接近零，在系统中相当于橡皮擦。它不直接删除图像，而是剥夺墨燕进入该区域的资格。This brush lowers saturation toward zero. It does not delete the image; it removes the swallow’s permission to enter that territory.
机器如何读取一幅山水。HOW A MACHINE READS A LANDSCAPE.
系统持续提取画面的饱和度通道，将高饱和像素判定为墨燕可以进入的二维坐标区域。The system continuously extracts saturation and treats highly saturated pixels as two-dimensional territory the swallow can enter.
彩色山石与赛博数码笔刷开放边界；趋近零饱和度的水波纹笔刷擦除合法飞行空间。Color and cyber brushes open boundaries; near-zero-saturation ripples erase valid flight space.
拇指竖起依次切换笔刷，食指单独竖起触发最高优先级的“归一”重置指令。A raised thumb cycles through brushes; a single raised index finger triggers the highest-priority reset command.
环境声振幅被重新映射为纸鸢的纵向位移；色彩决定水平范围，声音牵引升降。Ambient sound amplitude maps to vertical movement: color defines the horizontal field while sound pulls the kite upward and downward.
参与者可以划定边界，却不能决定痕迹如何结束。VISITORS MAY DRAW THE BOUNDARY, BUT CANNOT DECIDE HOW THE TRACE WILL END.
声音可以推动纸鸢升高，色彩可以扩大飞行范围，水波纹可以收窄边界。人在发现这些规则后，往往会试图持续干预纸鸢的位置，并把它限制在自己预设的路径中。Sound raises the kite, color expands its range and ripples narrow the boundary. Once these rules are understood, visitors often try to keep directing the kite along a path they have imagined.
所有笔刷均叠加反馈循环与模糊运算，颜色的蔓延和消退始终带有不可预测的边缘。即使参与者精准擦除，画面仍会出现扩散、残留与数据溢出。Feedback loops and blur affect every brush, giving color unpredictable edges as it spreads and fades. Even precise erasure leaves diffusion, residue and data spill.
食指手势不是一次普通撤销，而是主动终止控制。它切断视觉反馈，让人工痕迹全部消解，使画面和观看者共同回到最初的山水状态。The index-finger gesture is not an ordinary undo. It deliberately ends control, cuts the visual feedback and dissolves every human trace so image and viewer return to the original landscape.
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