I’ve heard a tree grew out from the indigo fabric

2021

Mixed Media (Broussonetia papyrifera paper, cyanotype)

Dimensions variable

Have you heard?

Sea and sky were once connected

A gradient indescribable in words

Without a left or right, an up or down, a front or back

Independent from time, rejected from space

Have you heard?

That day, that hour, that minute, that second, that moment

That person, cut off a length from the gradient

To hide his deeds, named it “sea” and “sky”

Have you heard?

The higher the sky, the wider the sky – the more varied it is

The deeper the sea, the broader the sea – the more fickle it is

Have you heard?

Sea and sky (sky and sea) always sized up each other in contrast

Measuring everything on what has passed, considering it as the only thing that is valid

Who had ever expected the seed enveloped in sweat, surviving in the cracks

To have grown into a fledging sapling?

Cut into equal sizes, and layered on in sequence, the paper undergoes negative cyanotyping. Depending on pieces of paper, and each of its thickness, the sensitivity to light varies. The result both demonstrates and measures the weight, thickness, patterning and the rawness of the handicraft.