"Hanzi Gong" is inspired by Kangxi Dictionary (1716), containing 47,035 characters (in Traditional Chinese) and categorized by 214 radicals. Through... Read More
"Hanzi Gong" is inspired by Kangxi Dictionary (1716), containing 47,035 characters (in Traditional Chinese) and categorized by 214 radicals. Through push stack adjustment, the wireframe with thousands of words is thus created with 18,046 characters and 50 (1) radicals, with in total 51 series of art works.
As human beings, our emotions change all the time. Words and characters are tools for us to express more precisely of these emotions. What if the Chinese characters have their emotions? What would they look like? Observing the solids from the virtual perspective enables people to make Chinese characters come to their minds spontaneously according to their emotions at the time. Chinese characters are like human. "What that has never changed, what that might be changing".
"Heart" series puts the uniqueness of Chinese characters centre-stage. The motifs are composed of 736 characters layered on top of each other, each character visibly containing either of the two “xin” radicals. “Xin” means “heart” in Chinese and, in the series, it represents the emotional aspect of writing, since even individual ideographic Chinese characters can express moods, traits and aspirations. Although a common human experience, this form of expression is uniquely Chinese.
