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在这个算法奔涌、连算命都能交给AI的时代，爷爷依然用着最传统的方式，一笔一划推演卦爻。
爷爷从不是靠此为生的人。1968年自同济大学毕业后，做过工程，也教过书，直到退休。九十年代，他偶然翻开《周易十日谈》，自此沉迷其中。书桌上多了自制的轮盘、写满字迹的笔记本；玻璃下，还压着我十年前美术课随手写下的一句话：“但行善举，莫问前程。”
这些年，爷爷常为亲友推演，从不求回报。安静、专注，仿佛在他的精神世界里，用纸笔勾画出属于自己的河图。
这个项目的起点，源于一次饭桌上的对话。那天，爷爷讲起为人择吉的事情，我忽然意识到：在AI席卷的当下，算法甚至介入了最依赖直觉、经验与手工痕迹的领域。
不同于绘画、设计等直观的视觉实践，推演卦爻的过程本质上是人与宇宙的对话。算法的介入，让这种古老而细腻的经验显得格外荒诞。
这既是一场跨越代际的私人对话，也是一种对时代荒诞感的回应。作品以影像与叙事为媒介，试图在传统与技术、个体与时代之间，寻找某种对照关系。。
In this era driven by algorithms—where even AI can tell fortunes—my grandfather still practices the most traditional method, quietly tracing lines and symbols by hand.
He has never made a living from it. After graduating from Tongji University in 1968, he worked in engineering and later taught various subjects until retirement. In the 1990s, he stumbled upon Ten Conversations on the I Ching and became deeply absorbed. Since then, his desk has been filled with self-made divination tools and notebooks filled with handwritten calculations.
Beneath the glass of his desk lies a note I scribbled ten years ago: “Do good deeds, ask not about the future.” My grandfather continues to read fortunes for family and friends, never asking for anything in return. Calm and focused, he remains immersed in his spiritual world, sketching his cosmic diagrams with pen and paper.
The starting point of this project came from a casual conversation at the family dinner table. My grandfather was talking about helping a friend choose an auspicious date for construction. It suddenly struck me that in this age of rapidly advancing AI, even practices like fortune-telling and divination are now being touched by algorithms.
Unlike visual arts or design, which naturally lend themselves to digital tools, divination has always been a deeply personal, intuitive, and manual process, filled with handwritten symbols and quiet rituals. The intrusion of AI into this ancient, delicate practice feels almost absurd, yet it reflects the strange reality we live in.
This project is both a personal dialogue with my grandfather and a quiet response to the surreal tension between tradition and technology.