Imagining the Lacuna: Recurrence
Ink on paper, inscribed stele fragment
18 x 18 cm (framed 26 x 26 cm)
2022
In the Imaging the Lacuna series, the artist reimagine the absent elements of the Chinese character of inscribed stele fragments and its imagery. The reassembled imagery is depicted and filled into the stone fragments to construct new possibilities of the absent elements.
In Imagining the Lacuna: Recurrence, the remaining inscription was conjectured to be the Chinese character 番. According to "Shuowen Jiezi", one of the earliest Chinese dictionaries compiled in c. 100 CE, the track left by a beast is called 番, which ancient people used to represent the idea of recurrence. Steles, then, are the footprints and solid traces left by humankind that bear the recurring history.
填空補白：番
水墨紙本、殘碑碎片
18 × 18 cm （連框 26 × 26 cm）
2022
《說文解字》載「獸足謂之番。從采；田，象其掌。」古人尚以野獸之跡代更替之義。碑者，人之蹤也，世代輪流之跡也。
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