遊心 | Wandering Mind

2012

This series comprises 4 abstract paintings of a restrictively monochromatic palette in order to accord with the color of ink and rice paper peculiar to Chinese calligraphy and literati paintings, emphasizing the dialectic of black and white, the painted and the unpainted, being and nothingness. The work suggests a sequence of viewing from Wandering Mind I to Wandering Mind IIII, a spiritual walk from the obscurity of chaotic beginnings of the world to an attainment of ease in letting go of obsessive pursuit of the unintelligible truths, referring to the spiritual aimless wandering in Chuang-tzu, in which Lao Dan’s complete absence of mind revels in the rising and ceasing of things as he “walks [his] heart before things come into being.”

HAN MENGYUN

HAN MENGYUN