Blooming Time -- Program SPARK 盛放——花火计划

Blooming Time is a space installation curriculum designed for left-behind children at the Terguo Central School in Puge County, Xichang City, Sichuan Province. This installation built by the children will be kept in the school after the camp ended, and become the "carousel" in the Daliang Mountain nature "playground”. The second-hand shared bikes recycled from the city have become children's big toys. Connected end to end, twelve ofo bicycles together formed a shape similar to a carousel; in the center, the roof functions as a shelter and becomes a human-driven " carousel ". People affectionately call it ofofofo, and the rounded letters ‘o’ and ‘f’ echo the form of the installation. The emotion expressed by the form and rhythm of the close interlock, which is from the word (‘ofofofo’) and the object (the ‘carouse’) is like the golden sentence in Gertrude Stein's poem, "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose". This is a unique and fantastic installation. It seems a bit dangerous-the process of learning bicycles could be quite difficult for many children; while it is also very safe-biting each other, twelve bicycles formed a stable structure that could rotate without falling over. But if someone slacked off, it could be difficult to spin smoothly and quickly. Under the safe structure, children explore and develop their senses and motor nerves, exercise the balance and coordination system of their body, and try to collaborate and take risks. The campaign coincided with the Yi People's Torch Festival. The state-level Torch Festival was canceled because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Kids inevitably feel disappointed. In this year's camp, kids created the "blooming time" together by themselves and share this gorgeous object with more than 70 kids in the camp. The unique gift in the Torch festival turned the playground into a fun carnival full of laughter. Playing is one of the few things in children's lives that they can control by themselves. They wrote in their diaries: "Today is the best day ever because we do a great job on assembling bicycles!" Yi language originated from ideographic language. And gradually transformed into phonetic characters in a slow evolution, forming a unique language text structure: similar to the simplified Chinese seal script, most of which are independent characters. Although it is a unique script of the Yi people in Daliang Mountain, nowadays, there are fewer and fewer people who can write in this language. After communicating with the Yi language teacher on campus, we jointly brought a Yi language lesson to the children in the camp. The characters written by the children were attached to the tarp of the installation with paper tape, decorated by spray painting of plants and rocks collected in the Daliang Mountain. With the silhouette of plants and rocks, Yi language formed an image with a strong sense of composition. All of these together built an installation that just belongs to Daliang Mountain.

盛放（Blooming Time）是2021年公益建造项目“花火计划”为四川大凉山彝族自治州西昌市普格县特尔果中心校的留守儿童们带来的空间装置课程。这座孩子们亲手创作的装置，将在营地课程结束后留在学校，成为属于大凉山这座大自然的“游乐场”中的“旋转木马”。回收自城市的二手共享单车，成为了孩子们的大玩具。 十二辆ofo单车首尾相连，形成类似旋转木马的形态；中间以顶棚完成庇护的功能，成为一个靠骑车的人驱动的“旋转木马”。大家亲切地称它为ofofofo，循环的o和f两个字母，回应了装置的形态。词与物之间紧密咬合的形式与节律所传达的情感，仿佛是格特鲁德·斯坦因（Gertrude Stein）诗中的金句“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose"。 这是一个独特又梦幻的装置，它看起来似乎有点危险——学自行车的过程对很多孩子来说都异常艰难；但又十分安全——十二辆相互咬合的自行车，形成了一个既可以旋转又不会倾倒的稳定结构。但若是有人“摸鱼”，它也很难顺畅快速地旋转起来。孩子们在安全的结构下，探索感官和运动神经，锻炼身体的平衡与协调系统，也尝试着协同与冒险。