Shi Yong：A ( ) Bird be Released from the Top of a Certain Tower

The title "a( ) bird be released from the top of a certain tower" comes from Borges' short story The Lottery in Babylon (La loter i a en Babilonia). In this novel,an institution called "Lottery" established the rules for drawing lots,which made the entire Babylonian people got caught within it: some lots determine the major issues,as life or death,while others have no dear purposes. “A bird be released from the top of a certain tower” is exactly one of those lots which has no clear purpose in the story. Shi Yong cited this statement and deliberately added a “（ ）” in between "a bird",which made a seemingly insignificant lottery, a likely common event to be suspenseful of identity and state of the bird roused by the “( )” . As a prefix，“（ ）” switches the audiences' focus of the bird from a releasing gesture to the ambiguously pre-releasing state.

If we say that Shi Yong made use of the objects in Under the Rule as metaphors to convey the helplessness of individuals who may lose control of their own bodies in the real environment, a ( ) bird be released from the top of a certain tower combines metaphor with reality- the two texts are intertwined to present the artist's active attitude towards reality. Shi Yong reproduced in the main space of Boxes Art Museum a "case" scene that is a certain result after the game…May we only express our doubts through innuendos in the face of the twisted truths and a case that cannot be cleared up? I have no answer.