Title: Transcendental Bliss

Year: 2019

Dimensions: 8’x8'3" mural, moss planter 6’x6’x1', sculpture 8'x8'x1.5'

Medium: Mixed media and linocut printmaking mural

Location: I Park, Connecticut

Site-specific installation. All materials are gathered and recycled on-site. The printed winds symbolize all kinds of insects that appeared in the area during the time the piece was created.

This piece reflects on the first chapter of Zhuangzi about the relative perspective of life spans in the infinite time of all matters, and how that makes the answers to individual life inconceivable within the mass of the universe.

The philosophy also responds to the main purport of Diamond Sūtra.

“Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;
Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.”

“So is all conditioned existence to be seen.”

• "Small knowledge is not comparable to great knowledge, and a short life-spend is not comparable to a long life-spend. How can we know this to be so? Morning mushrooms do not know the solstices, cicadas do not know the seasons. These are examples of youth. In the south of Chu, there are ancient trees that consider five hundred years as spring and five hundred years as autumn."
  
• Zhuangzi_, Transcendental Bliss
  

名稱：逍遙遊

年代：2018

尺寸：雕塑245x245x45立方公分、183x183x30.5立方公分，壁畫245x253平方公分

媒材：廢棄大排水管、土、苔蘚、木屑、回收紙、膠板印刷

地點：美國康乃狄克州I-Park基金會

創作靈感來自莊子《逍遙遊》。「小知不及大知，小年不及大年。奚以知其然也？朝菌不知晦朔，蟪蛄不知春秋，此小年也。楚之南有冥靈者，以五百歲為春，五百歲為秋」。遂以木屑製成的龜殼對比牆上如光影移動的昆蟲翅膀，宇宙與時間之奧妙，人試圖以宏觀與微觀的角度去探索，皆無所窮盡。使用在地材料，牆上的壁畫是創作時當六月間，當地的昆蟲翅膀樣貌刻成的橡膠板，層層疊疊印成，如轉瞬變化的光影。《金剛經》云：「一切有為法，如夢幻泡影；如露亦如電，應作如是觀。」