铜的自然生长 是罗黛诗“生物学创造研究”中的最新系列作品。以铜材料为媒介，通过设计和科学的综合应用，设计材料的色彩行为，让其自然生长出星空、沟壑、植物、海洋…在空气、时间中凝结成独特的图案与肌理。犹如铜透过色彩语言演绎着无境的宇宙。
Spontaneous growth of copper is the latest series in Luo Daishi’s Bio-design programs. She uses a comprehensive application of design and science to fine-tune the behaviour of materials and awaken the colour of copper from a biological perspective. The stars, gullies, trees, oceans grow from colours…just like copper show the boundless universe through colour language.
▼作品概览，overview © Daishi Luo
这是对材料的设计解剖，更是对生物学创造思维的研究。我们从模拟自然到设计自然，再到自然创造；从工业化生产组装，到物质的自发生物性生长。这种创造思维的改变，是否能够让我们的创作、物品更具创造性？
这项研究始于2015年蛮蛮鸟系列，如何让物质材料能够自我发声，是我始终探索的方向。在这次新系列中，我使用了摄像、摄影、雕塑、绘画、书籍的手段进行创作，每个作品拥有独立形式却又高度统一于项目中，致力于从多维角度呈现铜的生命形态，铜的生物性。
This is not only about the study of materials, but also the study of Bio-design thinking. We range from simulating nature to designing nature to natural creation; from industrial production assembly to the self-generated growth of matter. Could this change in creative thinking make things more creative?
This research began in the Manman series 2016. How to respect the material properties and stimulate the vitality of materials is the direction I always explore. In this new series, I used the video, photography, sculpture, painting, and books to create works. Each piece has an independent form but is highly unified in the project, and is dedicated to presenting the biology of copper from a multidimensional perspective.
▼让铜自然生长出绚丽的图案，let the copper grow naturally into a gorgeous pattern © Daishi Luo
为了最大程度地释放铜的生命力，实际是研究了自然环境使铜变色的条件，学习了铜的着色艺术和向光金属工艺。并通过大量实践将工艺艺术转变成类似自然生长的方式。“表皮生长”项目即是这样一个结合了传统工艺与现代科学的项目。项目中采用多种方式研究了铜材料的生命力，试图探索自然与非自然，理性与情感，科学与艺术之间的关系。设计师利用化学反应激活铜的色彩变化。在艺术品生成的整个过程中，设计师只是一个客观的介入者，是空气和时间，创造出了似植物，似珊瑚，又似经络的美妙图案。通过反应顺序的控制，铜逐渐生长出具有不同特征的多彩图案。
在整个研究过程中，从材料的基础研究到材料创新，再到设计创新都是自然而然的事情。抓住铜容易氧化的特性去放大，去尊重材料性格，新的东西就出现了。时节花器系列、星空系列、桌上屏风、纨扇系列、胶带座系列，从装饰到实用艺术，试图以多种方式释放出铜的色彩之美。我们扎根越深，去发力，何畏创新。
In order to maximize the release of copper’s vitality, I studied the factors that how natural make copper change color, learn copper coloring art and related metal crafts, and transform them into a mode of natural growing through a large number of practices – There is expected to lead growth in minimal human intervention.The Skin Growth is a Project that explores the vitality of copper, natural and unnatural, rational and emotional, science and art in a variety of ways, combining traditional craftsmanship and science, I use the principle of chemical reaction to activate the color of copper. But I am only an objective medium in the process, and cooperrate with the air and time to shape natural form like plants, coral, and meridian. Copper gradualy grow “colorful skin” of different character in orderly control.
▼空气和时间，创造出了似植物，似珊瑚，又似经络的美妙图案，cooperrate with the air and time to shape natural form like plants, coral, and meridian © Daishi Luo
