Work 4: "Mountain"
Regarding this series of works, I once tried to explore what meaning is.
To prevent viewers from hastily drawing worrying harmful inferences and反感 towards this series, I only want to remind that the scope of thought involved in the works is not limited by specific perceptual intuition, but possesses an unrestricted field. Only an intuition of what we think, that is, the determination of the categories of thought, is necessary. In the absence of intuition, the contemplation of the works can still have its real and useful consequences in the rational application beyond the theme, but such a determination of the theme and its meaning directed at personal categories of thought cannot and will not interfere with the discourse of the works themselves.
I excitedly wrote many texts about the "readability" and "sensibility" of the works and their meanings. I also tried to find the origin of concepts from traditional Chinese culture and Western grammatical systems. Every time I wrote a few sentences, I felt it was still not enough. Even if I filled hundreds of pages about the meaning of the works, I was still dissatisfied with this statement. So, I stopped talking about what they mean, only writing: "They are here." Yet I still couldn't be completely certain, until I asked someone, and he said: "You must stop right here, it's so wonderful, stop right here and say 'They are here'."
- Release:
- 2019
- Task:
- Art Creation
- Artist:
- Tang Yifei / togihi
Work 4: "Mountain"
Material | Mixed Media
For this work, it is inherently simple and uncomplicated. Each added part is itself simple, and the relationships between the parts are also simple connections. It began with vertical-parallel relationships, later becoming relationships of intersecting at oblique angles. The final whole formed is merely a combination of a few simple forms. Of course, this does not deny having a complete concept of the overall thing; in principle, the arrangement and combination of parts follow their proper positions within the whole. It abandons the hierarchical sequence whole composed of different details. Doing otherwise would only prove meticulous and sharp observation, but the level of thought would be pitiful. In the later stages of the work's creation, attempts were made to regard a complex overall situation as a single unit, dominating the integration of the entire contour line.
This process first involves adding units with closed contour lines to form a whole, then gradually transforming into a whole with an internal, organically unified structure. When one possesses higher rational thinking, one begins to integrate soul, emotion, illness with body and spirit.
Explaining many phenomena in contemporary society through the interconnections between mutually independent components, taking a stand and releasing an attitude towards the hierarchical sequence that advocates the whole.
—— Reshaping Design RIDS