We are all miscoded rhinos.
Recent Selective Works
It’s Not My Fault You Make Terrible Bananas
Scanning Art, Digital art/print, Photography
67 scans of bananas to prove a shocking but sincere fact: it‘s not my fault that you made bad bananas. Even the rhino in the bananas felt angry. Therefore, this work was a necessity.
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The Sinking, Moribund Rhino
Photography, Drawing, Digital Print
By using lens-free enlarging, direct charcoal drawing, and camera-less exposures on 4x5 negative film, combined with two inkjet prints on Japanese papers, manual smudging, and digital compositing techniques, to recreate and express the imagined traces of a rhino drowning in the depths of perception and feeling.
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The Mushroom
Drawing, Scanning Art, Infrared Photography, Digital Print
A mixed-media portrait work of a person named Thor who looks like a mushroom.
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The Kneeling Woman and Her Big Face on the Rhino’s Beautiful Skin
Photography, Drawing, Scanning Art, Digital Art
A woman that I saw in my dream, who reminds me of the rhino.
210mm*297mm
The Imprisoned Big Rhino
Drawing, Scanning art, Photography, Digital art/print
When we look at ourselves in the mirror, are we imprisoned within the reflective surface? As I contemplate the connection between the "rhino" and my personal desires, I am overcome with a sense of speechlessness. The "rhino" is just a concrete animal. Yet it seems to carry the weight of a catastrophic future. I believe this catastrophe is inevitable.
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The Photoman
Installation, Photography, Video, Digital art
With the popularity of smartphones and social media, photography has become a common lifestyle and cultural phenomenon in modern society. Everyone can take and share photos on mobile phones anytime, a phenomenon known as "The Age of Photographic Ubiquity".
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The Bisexual Rhinos’s Footprints
Drawing, Scanning Art, Photography, Digital Print
The footprints of the rhino and my own fingerprints were supposed to be invisible. And yet, I tried to follow the footprints of the bisexual rhino to find an invisible end. But when I arrived, all I got were the footprints we left.
24x36inch(with frame)
Touching the Rhino’s Skin
Drawing, Photography, Painting, Behavioral art
Searching for the rhino is difficult and random, yet the process is a necessity to me. I could already sense the rhino’s presence, so I decided to touch it on the paper. I slowly rubbed many pieces of charcoal between my hands until they nearly disappeared. I felt the rhino more intensely and clearly.
It hides between the charcoal dust and the paper surface.
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The Rhino on the Horizon
Photography, Drawing, Digital Print
If I can see the rhino within my terminal and goal, it will become a necessity to visualize this feeling. I tried to integrate the two to show this subtle relationship between them. The cracks of the film are becoming the pointers of that destination. The textures of the paper are becoming the expressions of the process of arriving there.
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Thor
Drawing, Scanning Art, Digital Art
A portrait work of a person named Thor, whom I drew. Nevertheless, it has become a self-portrait work after I finished it, and when I edited it.
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Wordpaintorys
Drawing, Scanning Arts, Poetry, Digital Arts
Through a process of recombination with a degree of randomness, combined with contemporary calligraphic techniques, I have undertaken a secondary creation of several short stories and long poems I composed several years ago.
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THEY
An intriguing and precarious intimate relationship between three people.
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Tayane-01/02
Photography
A series of portrait photographs focusing on women in Tai'an, revealing the genuine fear and unease concealed behind their faces.
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The Knight of Rhinos
The inspiration came from when I first began to sense the presence of my rhino. It entered my body and mind gradually yet erratically. It seemed to be fleeing, yet showed no regret for its decision to draw near me.
The Rhino’s Toilet Room
Scanning Art, Photography
The rhinoceros is a powerful animal, brimming with passion. Its toilet room is a place of wonder. Impurities are not born, but move through the intestines and are expelled. All thoughts and inspirations move and are expelled between the textures on the walls.
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Through the Frames
Photography
Can we see through the screen? If so, can we see the tangible forms behind objects as clearly as if we were looking through a completely transparent pane of glass?
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He Died By the Window in the Hallway Next to the Classroom in His High School
Installation, Sculpture, Drawing, Photography, Mixed-Media
A murder scene of a student in a Chinese public high school. Created using many objects and different materials.
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Russia
Photography
Suburb of Russia during the winter.
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Me and I
Photography, Self-Portrait, Collage, Scanning Art
A self-portrait collaged photograph.
50cm*50cm
Project 20 (Photobook)
The Wonder Under the Bridge -Zhuozhou, China, 2023
Full book online:
https://freight.cargo.site/m/C2652203488679562013824944388215/Project-7_The-Wonder-Under-the-Bridge_Large-Format-Film-PhotographyPhoto-Album_.pdf
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Selective Short Films (Experimental/Narrative)
1. The Dance of Death (2024)
Written, directed, cinematographed, and edited by Liron Donovan.
A film about intimacy. A story about a transgender dancer who just lost her mother before a show.
2. Fallen Cherries (2023)
Written, directed, produced, cinematographed, and edited by Liron Donovan.
A fantastical, experimental, symbolic film, and the debut of my non-narrative short film. Offline with my own co-curated screenings and participation in many festivals, as well as public screenings.
3. The Calendar (2024)
Written, directed, cinematographed, and edited by Liron Donovan.
A fantasy, narrative, and romantic story about a young boy’s loss.
4. Pin 针 (2024)
Editor, Creative Consultant
An experimental short film.
Updated 24.10.31