This installation is about thinking of all kinds of long-existing binary oppositions , including matter/consciousness, human/god, and nature/culture, science/spirituality. Binary opposite thinking pattern has been deeply rooted in people’s mind, and further causes anthropocentrism, technology cult, and materialism, and reflect on the absence of spiritual power in this era of instrumental rationalism.
The installation is a spaceship, and it is also a conceptual model. The upper part is a bust weaved with twig of pine tree. The lower part is another bust in symmetry to the upper one, which is made of copper wire. The fusion of the two parts indicates syncretism of man and himself, a unified relation that converged by the duality of subject and object.
The inspiration of the installation come from Vajrayana symbols, and mark of infinity.
In terms of Vajrayana symbols, fully-realized noumenal female and fully-realized phenomenal male transform in the sphere of expansion through all space, and there is no non-duality cessation frontier between them.
In the upper part, the purple pillar symbolizes Susumna in Yoga with many ears, eyes, lips, noses, tongues, and human heads on it. In the existing knowledge system of spiritual practice, sensory information received by the five sense organs are only a very limited part of information we gain from the world, making our experience trapped only in analysis of information we sense.
we establish the pattern of “Perceptual cognitive signs” to perceive the world, but there is another cognitive pattern called “Intuition- nonlocality”.
In this cognitive pattern, functions of the five sense organs can interchange and also be surpassed. The pattern of “Perceptual cognitive signs” is dominant in the consciousness of modern world, while the pattern of “Intuition-nonlocality” is filtered out in most time of our daily life.
Title: Infinity
Dimensions: 52*48*195cm
Medium: Pine Tree Branch, Acrylic, Copper Wire, Super Light Clay, Toner, Acrylic Paint
Creation Date: 2019
