Impromptu natural art

Working together with nature is not at all like studio work. This art admits of no advance planning. Even if I know where I am going, I don’t know what I will encounter. Even if I know what I will encounter, when I go out, tool in hand, to seek out the plant I once encountered, I discover that it has changed. It is a living thing. It grows, ages, dies. So the best thing is to make no plans, empty your heart-mind to go meet the world. If your heart is empty you can receive the gift of nature, that ever-unexpected intimate touch. Encountering, and at the same time accepting nourishment, I am able to forge a relationship with nature. It is as in the song of the tragic girl Du Liniang in “The Peony Pavilion”: “Flowers like human feelings lead us toward goodness…”
So my impromptu natural artworks don’t aim to alter nature, rather they dance together with it. If among mpromthe multitudes I encounter someone I love, we smile, and forgetting each other, we turn together to lose ourselves among the rivers and lakes.

20180713142829

NO 1
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
Edition:12

 

2019a

NO 2
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
Edition:12
Text: Your wound is an ant’s refuge from the rain

2019b

NO 3
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
Edition:12
Material: black rice

alive

NO 4
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
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3

NO 5
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
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4

NO 6
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
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21

NO 7
Size: 45 cm x 60cm
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22

NO 8
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
Edition:12

23

NO 9
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
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7

NO 10
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
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10

NO 11
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
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12

NO 12
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
Edition:12

14

NO 13
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
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20

NO 14
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
Edition:12

6

NO 15
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
Edition:12

wf2

NO 16
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
Edition:12

wf5

NO 17
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
Edition:12

wf6

NO 18
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
Edition:12

DSC_0174

NO 19
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
Edition:12

20181004093109

NO 20
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
Edition:12

20181005183750

NO 21
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
Edition:12

20181005220051

NO 22
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
Edition:12

20181007213324

NO 23
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
Edition:12

20181007213329

NO 24
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
Edition:12

20180713143029

NO 25
Size: 60 cm x 45cm
Edition:12