soul segmentation 丨 灵魂切割 Original

文化哲学创始人卡西尔在《人论》提出人是符号的动物是我整个作品的创作灵感来源，文化是符号的形式，人类活动本质上是一种“符号”或“象征”活动，在此过程中，人建立起人之为人的“主体性”，并构成一个文化的世界。语言，神话，宗教，艺术，科学和历史都是符号活动的组成和生成，彼此表示人类种种经验，趋向一个共同的目标——塑造“文化人”。
“人是动物与文化的统一体”，这个定义告诉我们：人乃是动物与文化的统一，人不再是一种纯粹的动物，文化也不再是人之外的事物，二是人的有机组成部分，只有把人的肉体部分与文化的部分统一为一个整体，才是完整的人。这种关于人的新定义，与以往关于人的定义的最根本区别，在于它把“文化”引入了人的结构之中而作为组成人的要素，从而使人超越了动物与生物，成为一种高于动物或生物的存在。
于是我把人类符号从人的肉体中单独提取出来，并将音乐，舞蹈，战争，医疗，艺术，繁殖，代表肉体的x光透视以及代表形而上的宗教提取分割出来创作了整个作品——“人类符号的集合”

The perspective that man is symbolic animal proposed by cultural philosophy founder Cassirer in An Essay on Man is the source of inspiration of my entire work. Culture is the form of symbols, and human activities are essentially a kind of "symbol" or "symbolic" ones, in which people establish people-oriented “subjectivity”, and build up a culture of the world. Language, mythology, religion, art, science and history are the composition and generation of symbolic activities. They express experience of human beings and tend towards a common goal -- shaping "cultural man".
The definition that "Men are the unity of animal and culture” tells us that men are the unification of both, no longer a purely kind of animal, and culture is no longer a thing outside of man, but an integral part of man. Man is complete only unifying the human body and culture. The most fundamental difference between the new definition of man and the previous one is that it introduces the culture into the human structure and constitutes the essential factor of human being, making human beings surpass animals and creatures to become a kind of existence higher than animals or creatures.
So I separately extracted the human symbol from the human body, as well as music, dance, art, war, health, reproduction, X-ray on behalf of the flesh and religion representative of metaphysics to produce the whole works---"Collection of Human Symbols".