THIS NOT A TOMATO
2020
identity esperiment
https://mapping2022.cargo.site/Wu-Jiaqi
番茄可以是一切！这次的项目围绕番茄，
我身边的日常物品是研究的领域。
番茄作为一个符号，符号是有限的，客体的解释是无限的。卡片作为解释项，是主体对番茄加以认知、解释、感知、反应的过程和结果。卡片可以是一种思想观念，也可以是一种情绪，还可以是一种行动。通过联想分析，底层结构变得可见，新的形式出现。
读者被邀请去感知和重新定义——重新思考已知的番茄轮廓，探索跟番茄有关的系统。最终的海报把所有的解释项密集分布，他们变成了番茄的机理，卡片是番茄这个词语身上的基础单元，最终所有不是番茄的单元们形成了番茄。而番茄本身变成了造物主。
This is a study of the tomato—not as an object on its own, but as a mirror of everything that surrounds it. A symbol is limited, but its interpretations are not. The tomato is both familiar and elusive.
Around it, I place cards—each one a thought, a feeling, a gesture. Together, they trace how we perceive, explain, and react to the world. Through free associations, hidden patterns emerge. New shapes appear.
You are invited to listen again—to reimagine the silhouette of a tomato,to wander through the systems it touches and the meanings it can hold. In the final poster, the cards gather densely. They are not the tomato—but they make it The tomato becomes a structure made of everything it is not. It becomes a creator.
