“重启”这个主题让我想到一个看似简单，但却困扰我多年的问题。怎样才算是像一个男孩的样子？自我出生起，整个世界似乎都在告诉我该如何做以“像个男孩子一样”。许多社会期望都让我感到如此不适，人们却只回以一句“这是自然规律”。可自然规律是什么？依我之见，自然乐于创造缤纷的多样性，世上绝无两片相同的叶子；却只在工厂里，人们才会称不同于其他的产品为不合格。

于是我以此为基点创作了一系列插画，我将其命名为《自然之子》。我选择了一些我认为最具代表性的人工产品来隐喻社会对男孩的捆绑性期望，并展示了一些自然生物与一个小男孩的关系以表达我的观点。最终成品是一本由一整张A3海报折成的插画小册，这本小册并没有明确的起止页，它象征着此刻正于世界各处发生着的无休止的歧视和反抗。

我希望我的作品能让更多像我一样的男孩感到不那么孤单，也期望人们能重新思考他们对男孩的旧有定义，不要再不经思考地将常见视作理所当然。

How to be like a boy? I have been considering this question for ages. Since I was born, the world has seemed to be telling me how to be like a boy. I have felt uncomfortable with those social expectations of being a ‘boy’. People just said ‘that is unnatural’. But what is natural? Nature creates variety: there are no two identical leaves in the world. Only in a factory, do people call difference unacceptable.

So, I focused on this point to start my work. I chose several artificial products as a metaphor for society’s expectations of boys. I showed relations between some natural creatures and a boy to illustrate my opinions. I named it Nature Boy.

The final piece is an 8-page ‘zine, which is folded from one piece of A3 paper. This form of ‘zine does not have an actual start or end page. It is an endless ‘zine, that can represent endless discrimination and resistance.

The back of the ‘zine is an A3 poster. It was inspired by the famous painting The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, and it is also a symbolic cover of this endless ‘zine. As a ‘soft boy’ entered the world, it was the purest moment of his life. He loved the beauty of this fresh place, and he did not know anything about what he would face next.

I am tired of endless gender discrimination. I hope my work can make other boys like me feel less alone, and become brave. I also hope it will make people rethink their old opinions of how a boy should be, and not simply consider the common as natural, in an unthinking way.