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Jingquan Klaire Xiong's Artist Statement (Final daft)

 1. What is the theme of my Senior Show? Thinking about the randomness and controllability of human civilization development. From a historical point of view, the emergence, development, and collision of different civilizations are all by chance. Theoretically, civilization should be like biological evolution, which is dominated by the environment and randomness, and one individual cannot change the direction of the collective. But looking back in history from modern civilization, one person can lead a group, a country, or even a civilization to make changes like milestones. Why? Because our ancestors created complex language systems, developed transportation and communication, and built social systems, such as legal systems. And the result of these developments is different "civilizations" around the world. I use quotation marks because I always think that people's understanding of the concept of "civilization" and "culture" is still very rigid, inclu