题 目：Adam Thorman: Creatures Found / 亚当·索尔曼：被发现的生物

作 者：Adam Thorman

出 版：The Eriskay Connection，2024

装 帧：平装，180页

语 种：英文

尺 寸：22*17 cm

《寻迹生灵》系列创作源于在无生命物体中发掘生命形态的灵感。通过空想性错视——人类倾向于在无机物结构中辨识熟悉形态的心理现象——世界焕发出别样生机：如云朵中窥见面容、阴影里辨认魔怪。美国艺术家亚当·索曼始终对此现象保持敏锐感知，常从岩石、树桩、栅栏等物件中发现拟人化存在。本书汇集了他十八年来邂逅的各类"生灵"，这些形象既属于艺术家，同样也属于每位观者——每个人都能从中辨认出熟悉的、带有动物特征的、人性化的、真实存在的元素。

'Creatures Found' is a series based on finding the animate in the inanimate. The world comes alive through the lens of pareidolia – the human tendency to see familiar shapes and patterns in the structures of inanimate things around us. Some common examples are seeing faces and shapes in clouds and monsters in shadows. Adam Thorman (US) has always been sensitive to this phenomenon, often spotting anthropomorphic beings in objects such as rocks, tree stumps, and fences. This books is a collection of the creatures he has encountered over the past 18 years. They belong to the viewer as much as they do to him, because everyone will recognise something familiar, something animal, something human, something real.