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在这个算法奔涌、AI也能算命的时代，爷爷依然用着最传统的方式，一笔一划推演卦爻。
他不是以此为生的人。1968年同济大学毕业后，他做过工程、教过课，直到退休。九十年代，他偶然翻看《周易十日谈》，自此沉迷，书桌上多了自制轮盘和写满字迹的笔记本。
书桌玻璃下，还压着我十年前留下的一句话：“但行善举，莫问前程。”爷爷一直为亲朋推演，从不求回报。他安静、专注，继续在他的精神世界里，用纸笔绘制属于他的河图。
这个项目的起点，源于一次饭桌上的对话。那天，爷爷聊起为亲友推算动工吉日的故事，我忽然意识到，在AI蓬勃发展的当下，连算命、占卜这样的领域，也开始被算法渗透。
不同于绘画、设计这些直观的视觉创作，推演卦爻原本是一种深具个人经验、直觉与手工痕迹的过程。算法的介入，让这个古老而细腻的领域，显得格外荒诞。
这既是我与爷爷的一次私人对话，也是一种对时代荒诞感的回应。
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.