Fixations Sculpture

"The Taoist perception of the real world differs essentially from our usual Western one. We tend to think, diagrammatically, of a world of separate things – some of them alive – arranged in an independent space. We take it for granted that these lumps of independent "things" cause each other, "act on" each other as they "move about" in empty space and pass through a series of static states of change […] change happens, as assume, by one "thing" turning into "something else." The way we experience and measure time is by dividing it up into countable moments, each of which is separate and, in an abstract way, identical to all others, however large or infinitely small we may choose to make them. Taoism sees all this schematic, vulgar and absurd. It recognizes that, though fixed concepts referring to things and states can be extracted by human thought from the mobile reality, and can be useful, there is actually no way of reconstructing the mobility of the real by adding up fixed concepts […] the Tao which Taoism knows, and with which its art is concerned, is a seamless web of unbroken movement and change, filled with undulations, waves, patterns of ripples and temporary "standing waves" like a river." Rawson, P. and Legeza, I., L., Tao: The Chinese Philosophy of Time and Change, London, Thames & Hudson, 1984, pp. 9-10. Instead of conceiving Reality as the agglomeration of separate things – finding the infinite interlinking among all things.

Sculpture:Clay on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:15.7 W x 23.6 H x 5.9 D in

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