怒放 Original

Blossom: A Video Animation of Contemporary Ink is inspired by Haizi’s poem Peach Blossom: “The peach flowers are blossoming, like a prison cage running out of blood, like a pair of axes running out of blood, like a warrior running out of blood. Why are the flowers so red, like the magnificent flames of a snowy mountain? My prison cage is on fire; it is collapsing, with the burning chains and iron bars, casting towards the surrounding dark plateau.” Through incorporating animated imagery from the culturally coded contemporary ink medium, this animation and interdisciplinary performance aspires to evoke a transcendental experience of the microscopic world, a glimpse into the crucible of genesis. Lively ink drops signify the pumping of the blood, the pulsation of the heart, the reproduction of cells, and they symbolize physical, spiritual struggle and rebirth, just like the ever-blooming of the peach blossoms……The interwoven hybrid of water and ink conjures up an interlacement of highly dynamic and powerful brush strokes that bring into being a trilling tension of life and death, and a world of vastness where nowhere is to be found. To understand these illusionary spaces, the audience “travels” through and across different dimensions, time and space.