And I Went Off to the Mountains
Sculpted and glazed by hand in the traditional Chinese way of creating porcelain, the peaks, and the fjord that forms from the emptiness, embodies Zen philosophy and the grace of ancient Chinese paintings. The burnt bronze-sprayed blocks interrupt the landscape abruptly, reminding us of tombstones, monuments at night, coffins, or memorials—elements related to the memories of a modern society. While China has a traditional view that disassociating from society in the nature is retaining cleanness of the soul, the blocks pushes modern, alien, heavy and uncanny memorial into the landscape, demanding reconsideration of the subtle relationships between nature and societal memorial.