Shan Hai Jing (2010)
Parks, like libraries, are gems in
our city. Bountiful and beautiful. I've been wanting and waiting to
photograph them. It took me ten years to realize this is my response to
Shan Hai Jing. Shan Hai Jing, literally translated as Collection of
Mountains and Seas, is an ancient literature on geography and mythology
in China.
After the law of constant change is the law of birth,
death and re-birth. How much has our world changed since the first
century? How does a person of the 21st century view the world with
vision pondering the present, future, and past? Rewind, fast-forward and
pause.
Ancient travelers had mighty encounters. They described
them with their own understanding that could be shocking, confusing and
most often misinterpreted. Yet we are inspired, and even enriched by the
same ambiguous, enigmatic 2000 year old texts.
My passage is not
guarded nor ruled by time. Moving between the real and the imaginary,
springing and bouncing off the trampoline to create free falls.
Geographically speaking and timing wise it started from Latitude
43.643996, Longitude -79.427669 in the year of 2010.
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A collection of park panoramas. A travelogue through time, myths and
imagination. First work was exhibited in What's Next 30x30 at The OCT
Art & Design Gallery in China in 2011. More work from the series was
shown in a three-person show at INDEXG in 2013. These archival pigment
prints are in the size of 22x8 inch, 10 editions.
