当得知我们的毕业课题主题为“重启”后，我开始试图思考我所生活的社会是如何在影响人们，最后选择将研究重点放在创作自由上。

在搜索资料和思考不同创作媒介后，我以中世纪油画中的裸体男女人物形象为灵感创作了两组插画，并上传到网上。为了测试系统的运作方式，我分别制作了遮住身体不同部位和只展示性器官的两个版本。令人惊讶的是，唯一被系统屏蔽的是裸体女性版本。

我决定做更多实验以测试系统的极限。我找到了更多裸体模特的照片，尝试着发表不同版本的照片和插图。大多数插图没有被屏蔽，但几乎所有照片都被删除了。最终我决定用插画来覆盖照片中的性器官，这些图片没有被屏蔽。

这些发现给了我一个完善作品的创作思路。我将拼贴作为媒介，通过露出不同的身体部位来展示网络审查制度是如何运作的。

通过作品，我表达了自己对创作自由的感受。我希望人们在看到它时能思考自由表达想法的重要性，而不是完全受权威所控制。

When I heard the topic of our final project “Restart”, I tried to think about how the society I lived in influenced me. After looking at various topics and directions, I decided to focus on Artistic Freedom.

I started from researching about the situation in China, and I found an interesting historical reference, which was the “Stars Art Group”. I also thought about some of the violations of artistic freedom around me, and made a few collages as a response.

Then, I decided to make two series of illustrations of female and male figures from paintings in medieval times, and tried to post them online to see if they would be blocked. In order to test the boundary of the system, I made different versions that covers different body parts of the figures. The only one blocked by the system was the naked female version.

After that, I found more pictures of nude models online, and tried to post original photos; collages that covers sexual organs; different versions of illustrations; both photos and illustrations that only shows sexual organs. Most of illustrations remained fine while almost all the photos were blocked. Finally, I decided to cover the sexual organs of the bodies by my illustration, and the pictures were not blocked.

All of the findings mentioned gave me an idea to complete my work. I decided to use collage as a format, and combined the idea of showing how censorship works by revealing different body parts. I’ve made a few collages and they finally completed my work.

In conclusion, I wanted to express my feelings of freedom of expression through my work. I want people to look at it, and think about the importance of expressing their ideas, instead of being controlled by the authorities.