In Canon, a half-transparent, white ghostly body performs yoga-like choreography inside a human head. It begins with a Tadasana pose (mountain pose), to exhale in and exhale out with the arms slightly swung. Correspondingly, the outside head is expanded and shrank following the movement of the inside body. Changing, overlapping colors are added, and the shape of the head is blurred and gradually becomes something like Chi - invisible aura, or energy. Then the arms of the inside body gently reach to the sky and transform into Warrior One Pose, with its right foot forward and the left foot straight behind. Hold a few breaths. Afterward, it turns to a child pose, hug, and curl up its body. The head, accordingly, returns to the original shape.

In Canon, I sculpted a dancing body inside a ghostly head with open-source 3D software, Blender, and then synchronized my bodily movements with a 3D object using a Kinect sensor. These works incorporated the spirit of physical practices designed to benefit the well-being of people, such as Qigong and Yoga. Like the original definition in music, "Canon is a contrapuntal (counterpoint-based) compositional technique that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played during a given duration". The Canon represents the changing synchronization of the inner mind and outer appearance of the human body, as well as implies the invisible coordination between computer algorithms and the input data from man's determination. Infusing my soul into a computer-generated object, Canon is a sublimation of cooperation between humans and machines.

在Canon這件作品作品中，一個半透明幽靈般的身體在人頭內進行類似瑜伽的祈禱。以 Tadasana 山式開始，它輕輕擺動手臂深呼吸，相對應地，外圍的人頭隨著體內人體的的運動而膨脹和收縮，變得模糊，像是氣—無形的靈氣，或能量一樣。此時，內部的身體輕輕將雙臂伸向天空，化作戰士一式，右腳向前，左腳伸直在身後。隨著心跳聲逐漸急促，它毫無顧忌地綻放成超現實的型態。在氣的散佚之後，它又轉換為嬰孩的姿態，擁抱並蜷縮著身體，慢慢的回到頭部之中，結束祈禱。

在這件作品中，我使用使用 Kinect 感應器捕捉我的瑜珈動態，並將此導入人頭內的3D身體中。彷彿將靈魂注入由電腦繪圖生成的物體中，Canon如同其在音樂中的定義一般，代表了人的內心與其外表變化的階段性輪唱，也隱含了電腦繪圖技術與現實人體的動態數據之間的無形協調及逐漸達成同步的過程，展現了人類與機器合作的昇華。

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