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  • Burning Life Line
  • Candle, iron, copper, pebble
  • L:200cm/W:200cm/H:260cm
  • 01 May 2007

Context

This candle and the flame, are by no means ordinary, its semblance was inlayed many Arabic numeral casted in bronze, has composed the different years and the dates; These dates all for occurring in important matter of modern times politics, economy, science and technology, education, military, health, environmental protection etc. commemorative days. (When burning these numerals on the semblance could slowly one by one fall on foundation, mixes for the same place, becomes one kind of mark to pile up.) Simultaneously in candle there also has the similar Arabic numeral welding a body and casted in candle, when burning the numerals could slowly reveal. With the both way which forgets or remembers by the dialectical thought the history, is one kind of instantaneous mark clarifying or blurring the history. With Wenqin’s words, the original intention of creating the work is: "Pondering the time, feeling the life and experiencing the true meaning in the burning process." 


Infinite universe 

But is in time a perpetual flow spray

Awe life 

Protects the nature 

Burning lifeline 

Sublimates for the instantaneous eternal... ...