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Old Toy Diagram
Yiyi | 2025- | 420×297mm; updating
It began with a simple curiosity: I took apart a toy on my desk and recorded its workings. Beneath its seemingly simple motions and effects, I discovered a design both concise and intricately interlocked. So I set out to reacquaint myself with the toys of childhood long tucked away in memory: the aerodynamics that carried a bamboo dragonfly’s skyward longing; the winding and release of a spring that powered a tin frog’s leap; and the partnership of geometry and light that conjured the kaleidoscope’s visual marvels—endlessly unfolding, dreamlike, and surreal.
These drawings and diagrams hope not only to summon back the pure, intent joy of past play, but also to touch upon the primal vocabulary that makes a toy “come alive”: wind, water, contact, friction, tension and release—forces as vital and poetic as childhood itself.
旧玩具图解
一一 | 2025- | 420×297mm; 更新中
起初，因为好奇，我拆解并记录了桌面上的一个玩具。发现在看似简单的动作和效果背后，有着简洁且环环相扣的设计巧思。于是，我尝试与那些尘封记忆里的童年玩具重新相识：空气动力学承载起竹蜻蜓飞天的愿望；发条的蓄能与释放造就了铁皮青蛙的跳跃；而几何与光学的合作则促成了万花筒的视觉奇景，它们无限延展，如梦似幻……
这些绘画与图解不仅希望唤回过去的玩乐时光，它们专注而纯粹；也试图触及让玩具“活”起来的原初语汇——风吹、水流、物体触碰、摩擦、蓄力、释放，它们与童年一样充满生机与诗意。
Yiyi | 2025- | 420×297mm; updating
It began with a simple curiosity: I took apart a toy on my desk and recorded its workings. Beneath its seemingly simple motions and effects, I discovered a design both concise and intricately interlocked. So I set out to reacquaint myself with the toys of childhood long tucked away in memory: the aerodynamics that carried a bamboo dragonfly’s skyward longing; the winding and release of a spring that powered a tin frog’s leap; and the partnership of geometry and light that conjured the kaleidoscope’s visual marvels—endlessly unfolding, dreamlike, and surreal.
These drawings and diagrams hope not only to summon back the pure, intent joy of past play, but also to touch upon the primal vocabulary that makes a toy “come alive”: wind, water, contact, friction, tension and release—forces as vital and poetic as childhood itself.
旧玩具图解
一一 | 2025- | 420×297mm; 更新中
起初，因为好奇，我拆解并记录了桌面上的一个玩具。发现在看似简单的动作和效果背后，有着简洁且环环相扣的设计巧思。于是，我尝试与那些尘封记忆里的童年玩具重新相识：空气动力学承载起竹蜻蜓飞天的愿望；发条的蓄能与释放造就了铁皮青蛙的跳跃；而几何与光学的合作则促成了万花筒的视觉奇景，它们无限延展，如梦似幻……
这些绘画与图解不仅希望唤回过去的玩乐时光，它们专注而纯粹；也试图触及让玩具“活”起来的原初语汇——风吹、水流、物体触碰、摩擦、蓄力、释放，它们与童年一样充满生机与诗意。