Danning Niu
Design Portfolio
On the Event of Love
Soft/hard ground, toner transfer, & aquatint etching,
blue ink on cream Rives BFK


Etching and printing as a healing process


Still, in silence, they decided to hug vanity and each other.


vain           We joked about how we are both vain people,         vain
questioning the sincerity within every [sincerity] act,
calling each other out on every moment of self-gratification.
"Stop performing!"
We enunciated.
Still, despite our bodily nakedness, we dreaded other exposures.
Still, in silence, we decided to hug vanity and each other.
                                                                                                     o-e-t-a-h-c-e-r
We grew old as the motherland returned to youth.





「amputation」「わたし」「我想你了」


「截肢」
「I miss you」
間に
挟んでしまった。


I was crushed
between
「咲きおわり」
and
「切断」



然而我拒绝切割
也无法停止思念


だから
I carved out a space between the either/or
among which I shall find hope





Light Switches


I tried to prove to you
how the world is not
black                       and                       white
while
you turned my world
on                         and                       off.





Deconstructed Love