Acrylic on stone tiles, set on porcelain tiles and sawn granite
Size: (h) 13 ¼” x 48” x (d) 1 ½”
The figures in this painting are the twelve animals of the Chinese calendrical cycle (galaxy), the originals in this case being small funerary statues – excavated in the mid-1950s, and likely created several centuries B.C. The recurring sequence/repeating pattern of time is a spacial concept. Here, each discrete year-unit is enshrined in its own tomb to signify the accumulating occupancy of the past in the midst of infinity (from the Latin, “unboundedness”).
Wow, Nan.
This work is fabulous.
So glad to be able to view it online.