Introduction

    ‘Sound of Emptiness’, this series of painting transcends the contrary of the binary system and crushes the difference between oneself and others, as well as between the subject and the object. In this paintings, Jiwye showcases plenty of blank spaces to present the concept of emptiness, depicting painting objects with their original natures and conditions.

    Inspired by the sound of Spring, the theme of the ‘Sound of Emptiness’ allows its audience to indulge in a scene where stream and waterfall flow into layers of cloud which appear so vast and void. The blankness found in the paintings symbolizes both fog and cloud in a scene, thus revealing both void and real. The cloud and mist over the mountain is an actual situation of mutually referent to represent the aesthetic sense of blankness and emptiness. All together, the paintings cerate an infinite imagination to the spectators, allowing them to feel virtually free and feel like traveling through space and time, and hence forget all changes across time, space and human beings.

Introduction

   This work is inspired by the poem of Su Shi (1037-1101). It is composed by eight individual pieces of paintings. From the different combinations of the eight pieces, spectators may see the different space that allow them have different sense of beauty. Cloud, mountain, river and sky are in hazy state. The scenery seems to be having something or nothing there, fully accompanied by emptiness and silence in the movement, from limited to unlimited, transcending emptiness. Dissolving into the scene,  spectators are able to have multiple associations.