Banners Intervention Series

Printed banners, 2016-2020

This series of public interventions appropriates the Chinese red and white banner (widely used to welcome guests, promote businesses and disseminate state propaganda) in order to present contemplative sentences.

Chosen text includes excerpts from Lao Zi's Dao De Jing (道德经), Chinese proverbs, as well as Zen poems and the artist's own writing.

All banquets must come to an end - Chinese saying

An atom is to the known universe as the known universe is to the actual universe.

The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflections. The water has no mind to receive their image - Zen Koan

Bend and you will be whole. Curl and you will be straight. Keep empty and you will be filled. Grow old and you will be renewed. Have little and you will gain. Have much and you will be confused

Past and future have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own. – Eckhart Tolle

Look around you, look at all the things you've never seen before.

I can't. I don't understand.

Banners installation exhibited as part of In Parallel, DuiShan Art Museum, Xiamen, China, Oct 2 - Oct 20, 2020.