Trunk Bottoms
Containment is the most useless solution.
Most Chinese parents wouldn’t tell their kids anything about sex forwardly. They would even complain and report schools about teaching kids sex knowledge. The fact that society has been suppressing sex eventually caused serious problems. Many unhealthy websites, such as those pornographic websites that contain blood and violence, were made for people’s abreaction, and also lead children who are innocent and curious about sex to bad ends.
In this carnival island of Menghua, how many people are released on the poisonous mushrooms of temptation, and how many people are sailing towards this place? Its distortion left people gradually sinking here.
Story of a Box
In ancient China, there was a tradition called the hidden box. Parents who have daughters would put a small box hidden under the bed and only show it to their daughter when the day she gets married. There were several small human sculptures inside the box, acting like they were having sex. Parents would use these to teach their daughters how to get along with their husbands in bed. For many people these days, their attitude toward sex actually has no difference from this tradition of the hidden box. Hiding it in the dark, not saying a word, that’s why the internet has become a hotbed for twisted sex.
The wrong way of guidance, let children and teenagers lose their direction. Sexual problems in the virtual world have become a feast, captivating the minds of all. We forgot that it’s part of the human process and that we can’t avoid it. No matter how you try to curb it, it will bloom somewhere and get more twisted. Does sex itself represent sin, or is it exploited and eventually turned into a means of filth because of our abnormal attitudes and perceptions?
In Meng-Hua…
The screen I use to display Trunk Bottoms in Meng-Hua is a monitor. Monitor means no dead corners, also implies the fact that those unhealthy websites are known by everybody, although people have been trying to avoid them.
I put this piece in the corner, behind the Meng-Hua mountain, to show the box has always been the topic people don’t want to mention.