Chiou Jong Jiun

2024

Well

POST WINGS

The series "The Root of Prajna" shifts Buddhist art from sacred forms to the daily lives of sentient beings. Birds, beasts, insects, flowers, and trees, appearing mundane and ordinary, transform into the practice space for contemplating life through inscriptions, composition, and the rustic language of watermarked woodcuts. The "prajna" spoken of in the work is not an abstract wisdom that distances itself from life, but rather it is rooted in the existence of all things, the interdependent relationships, and the continuous labor of the creator.

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