My research focus on the relationship between numbers and daily life, people and the life of the big data. We often record many things with the number, like time, money, order... Through the numbers, we can discover some information about people in their daily lives. As more and more numbers appear, they become an archive: an individual archive or a collective archive. Through these archives, sometimes we can know that people's memories are different, we can also see the biographies of people. What can the number bring us in daily life ? and how to visualize numbers? I started my research on these two issues.

 

I come from a Chinese family, my family believes superstition. When we want to do something important, we need to use superstition to get the best numbers, for example: buying a house, doing a funeral. I have an influence on my family, little by little, I start paying attention to the numbers. Over time, in my daily life, appear several numbers that pique my curiosity like numbers 1 and 11, I see them all the time, on every occasion, in my personal life. I'm curious about what this information means? What soft numbers say in our daily lives?

 

Every day, we generate many numbers, these number symbols are companions in our daily life and also become part of our life. For example, when we finish shopping, we can get a receipt. We can see the time, the price, and the item on the receipt. I like to collect my receipt, when I looked at it, I can remember my memory difference in my daily life.

 

Now the numbers are most often generated and calculated by the machines. In the old days, we do not have machines, in China, we often use the abacus to calculate the numbers. When I was in elementary school, we have abacus lessons and abacus games. At that moment, we have many people playing the abacus together, for me, the abacus is as an instrument, and the numbers as partitions. So I made an abacus, the size of my abacus is 1m x 30 cm, 1 is the number that I meet a lot in my daily life, and 30 is the hour of my birth time. And then, I used my abacus to play my receipt, finally, it releases my sound of every day. Finally, those three parts (abacus, sound, and receipts) constitute my special personal archive.