Birdman

2020
Picture Book
Pencil, charcoal
Size Variable


Le Bon's "The Crowd" describes the crowd's general characteristics and analyzes the psychological, moral, and behavioral characteristics of people in a group state. And how governors use these characteristics to establish and consolidate their rules. The protagonist Sikes I portray belongs to the people who blindly conform to the crowd. He appeared as a killer who worked for the government and lost his identity in an accident. After the accident, Sikes did not accept the situation as the protagonist Gregor Samsa in "The Metamorphosis" . His rebellious spirit is manifested in his attempt to find a place suitable which accepts his existence, but the revolution without a revolutionary spirit is doomed to fail. Sikes' rebellion in a state of isolation and helplessness eventually leads to failure. In China, this phenomenon reflects When the government dismantles the masses into separate individuals, no substantial changes can happen.

When the superstructure can not coordinate or distribute social resources reasonably, the people's conflicts are unavoidable. Especially in the context of the global economic downturn and capacity imbalances, regional discrimination in Chinese emerges one after another. Foreigners, aliens, people who speak another language, people who believe in another god, or any different identity would become the target of Xenophobic. Sikes' identity happened to be a collection of these characteristics. His difference made him unable to integrate into his environment anyway, which laid the foundation for his tragic ending.