Rainbow Sky Ⅱ

Piece Description:

Text: Zhong Ting

After a rainfall, these large and small Mani Stones (prayer stones) at the entrance of the Valley of the Kings (Tibet) gave the artist an impulse to paint colors on them. A realization came to the artist that life blends into nature. The large-scale performance artwork Moving Rainbow arose from this inspiration and, since then, most of the artist’s works bear an impression of this “rainbow.“ For the artist, a “moving rainbow“ travels along a road that connects an originary nature with modern civilization. We, ourselves, travel dimensions throughout our entire lives along this fault line between two contradictory modes of life. All artworks in the Rainbow Sky series have a “door” or “exit” element, like a door from the sky, leading to various times and spaces. This door may take the form of either fear, uneasiness, confusion, loss of control, rage, or their opposite. Perhaps this is the exit that the artist’s soul needs when observing and experiencing illness, life and death. The work Rainbow Sky Ⅱ in this exhibition will lead people’s thoughts to a distant and mysterious place, to a time and space full of primitive yin energy, guided by the bright rainbow (yang energy).