Junyan Hu

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Autocorrelations
05–20–20Thesis project for the BFA at NYU.
The project stems from my attempt to define the term “authenticity,” while in the process realizing the limitations of the dichotomy between real and fake. We are all prisoners of our bodies, with a limited number of sensory organs confined to certain ranges or frequencies. Our perception is tainted by our past experiences. We are confined in time, blissfully ignorant of the future or the past. We play different language games despite using the same language. Even science is limited by our imagination and the set of tools we use, making it just another interpretation of reality like any other religion or belief—a methodology flawed from its birth. “Authenticity,” therefore, becomes an elusive term constructed by perception filtered through these limitations.

Truth never occurs outside our own selves.
Life is but a system open to the rains that fall at intervals.
Things have no conceivable intrinsic values,
and the poetic parallel only flourishes in an inner dimension.
We see truth not in the reality of appearances but in the reality of thoughts.

The project is an attempt to utilize this mechanism; a collection of interlinking images that take on a documentary style yet contain little information that would potentially pin them down to a specific place or time—a collection of images that weaves an illusion of a truthful story.