In the current society, people's pace of life is becoming faster and faster, and this living condition itself has become a constantly fragmented collage: the 45-word microblog text, a short video of moments limited to 15 seconds. The number of information people receives every day is overloaded and incomplete. Fragmentation has become a new standard in our daily lives, including the city we live in, a product of multi-element collage and stacking. Cities gather people from different regions, even different races, and people carry the characteristics of unique national cultures. Everyone has become a fragment and part of a city. "Yours is mine" is the motto of the Internet. The Internet itself refers to sharing information such as photos, ideas, interesting articles, and favorite games. In the era of information, networks seem to be juxtaposed with time and space. Many images and online information produced every day seem equivalent to Duchamp's ready-made products and coexist with the vast human history. The images people see every day may have no connection with each other, or there are occasional echoes. Painting is no longer a single, island-like existence. Instead, pictures can ignore other time structures such as culture, biology, and geology. Most of the painting materials from the Internet are misappropriated, recombined, and simply copied. Without sharing, the Internet will not exist.
Since the totem of the primitive era and the production of bronze ware and painted pottery in the early stage of humankind, the seemingly ordinary things are juxtaposed through image, which produces mysterious power. The generation of the image extends for thousands of years with the initial stage of rational human development. Collage thinking refers to the way of thinking in which different pictures, images, and materials are put together. With the methods of fragmentation, deconstruction, and reorganization, pictures have the characteristics of image simulation, juxtaposition, superposition, decentralization, and nonlinearity. It is the manipulation of visual elements in the painting that integrates real human life with fictional images. Both are human imagination beyond his control, from the divine beast in the Classic of Mountains and Rivers to the sage human's mechanical body. The bombarded and irrelevant information fragments affect people's visual reception and inevitably lead to reviving different images.
Wu Jiumo's original intention in choosing the source of image materials for her works is the relations between fragmentation and shared pictures, which have the characteristics of juxtaposition and mixing. Oppose consistency, praise the illogical and compromise of images. It is complex and diverse with chaotic vitality. She hopes the image combination of "re-contextualization" will bring a unique visual feeling. The artist thinks the motif of traditional painting mainly presents a "triple" different world: the ideal pure land of joy, the ordinary secular life, and the suffering and pain of war and death. These three motifs are relatively independent, closed, and generally do not blend. Wu Jiumo tries to describe a complex mixture, neither a simple ideal world nor a response to ordinary life or an individual expression of heavy suffering. In any era, human feelings are "mixed". She hopes to express this mixed emotion with a non-singular image motif. Wu Jiumo tries to create a "world" or "experience space", and defines the picture atmosphere as "Sahā world", which is different from the Buddhist one, which means the real world of suffering. Here, it refers to graceful dance. It is hoped that in the suffering of the world, a lightness similar to dance will rise. This "dancers" series was painted during the epidemic, includes the images of protective clothing wearing doctors and advertisements in the consumer era. Wu Jiumo believes the work presents a kind of current affairs and news. This "slice of the times" records what is happening and the images of existing characters.