"Top To Bottom and Right To Left" (上行下效, 右始左归)
// BLURB //
Motion seeks repetition. A pendulum swings tracing the same arc—left, right, left, right. This is harmonic oscillation, a dance dictated by forces seen and unseen. Time locks itself into loops, marking returns that seem identical but are ever so slightly different. Friction smudges perfection; entropy steals precision. Still, it swings.
We live in oscillations. Waves ripple through water; electrons vibrate within atoms; planets loop around stars. Even the universe itself expands and contracts, inhaling and exhaling over eons. Repetition is nature’s language—order in the midst of chaos. The same patterns emerge: hearts beat, tides pull, breaths rise and fall. Inertia comforts us. Momentum becomes a lullaby. We perform the same gestures, repeat the same thoughts, desires, and dreams. Up and down. Top to bottom. Is this mindless futility, or is it ritual? Perhaps in repetition, we carve meaning, etching grooves into existence.
Think of the Schrödinger equation, which dictates the probabilities of particles: always oscillating, fluctuating between possibilities. Repetition, then, isn’t static—it’s a constant negotiation with change. Even the echoes of our routines carry subtle variations, like a fractal’s self-similar patterns, endlessly complex.
In the cycles of our days and nights, in the return of habits, we ask silent questions: Do we swing toward progress or regress? Is meaning found in the deviation or the return? The pendulum knows. It swings not for answers, but for the beauty of the arc—the art of movement within constraint, the poetry of persistence.
Motion seeks repetition. A pendulum swings tracing the same arc—left, right, left, right. This is harmonic oscillation, a dance dictated by forces seen and unseen. Time locks itself into loops, marking returns that seem identical but are ever so slightly different. Friction smudges perfection; entropy steals precision. Still, it swings.
We live in oscillations. Waves ripple through water; electrons vibrate within atoms; planets loop around stars. Even the universe itself expands and contracts, inhaling and exhaling over eons. Repetition is nature’s language—order in the midst of chaos. The same patterns emerge: hearts beat, tides pull, breaths rise and fall. Inertia comforts us. Momentum becomes a lullaby. We perform the same gestures, repeat the same thoughts, desires, and dreams. Up and down. Top to bottom. Is this mindless futility, or is it ritual? Perhaps in repetition, we carve meaning, etching grooves into existence.
Think of the Schrödinger equation, which dictates the probabilities of particles: always oscillating, fluctuating between possibilities. Repetition, then, isn’t static—it’s a constant negotiation with change. Even the echoes of our routines carry subtle variations, like a fractal’s self-similar patterns, endlessly complex.
In the cycles of our days and nights, in the return of habits, we ask silent questions: Do we swing toward progress or regress? Is meaning found in the deviation or the return? The pendulum knows. It swings not for answers, but for the beauty of the arc—the art of movement within constraint, the poetry of persistence.
EDITION, MEDIA, SIZE & WEIGHT
Unique Edition, Shanghai 2024~2025
RGB LED display, Chinese ink on Vietnamese linen embedded in hand cast resin, teakwood frame
120(W)×120(H)×5.5(D) cm // 46 kg
CRATE SIZE & WEIGHT
132(W)×132(H)×21(D) cm // 86.9 kg
EXPOSURE
“Cyberfeminity” at island6 Shanghai
CREDITS
Yang Ziqi 杨子奇 (performance) • Shengqiu Li 李生秋 (calligraphy) • Helen Chen 陈韵涵 (art direction) • Thomas Charvériat (art direction) • Yeung Sin Ching 杨倩菁 (production supervisor) • Tiara Alvarado-Leon (blurb)
Unique Edition, Shanghai 2024~2025
RGB LED display, Chinese ink on Vietnamese linen embedded in hand cast resin, teakwood frame
120(W)×120(H)×5.5(D) cm // 46 kg
CRATE SIZE & WEIGHT
132(W)×132(H)×21(D) cm // 86.9 kg
EXPOSURE
“Cyberfeminity” at island6 Shanghai
CREDITS
Yang Ziqi 杨子奇 (performance) • Shengqiu Li 李生秋 (calligraphy) • Helen Chen 陈韵涵 (art direction) • Thomas Charvériat (art direction) • Yeung Sin Ching 杨倩菁 (production supervisor) • Tiara Alvarado-Leon (blurb)
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