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Eaten Your Fill of Rice? 食飽飯未呀？
A vernacular Chinese greeting similar to “How are you?” or “What’s up?”
What is Chinese? What is being Chinese? What is Chinese identity in today’s global society?
The Rice, Bowl, and Chopsticks embody the spirituality, symbolism, and mannerism of the culture.
Chinese read images; beyond the mere surface aesthetic, seeing the visual resonating with the literal to form a richer understanding.
Modernity and contemporary are challenged with the revitalizing of ancient visual icons, characteristics, conventions of verbal pun, rebus, and homophone unique to the Chinese.
Each tableau and installation in this continuing series is a reevaluated and modernized allegory that draws upon traditional Chinese literature, metaphor, and mythology in today’s context. Auspicious maxims and talismans of aspirations, ethics, and morals that transcends kitsch, nationality, and time.
In our consumer society we consume what we inspired. Is this Bowl of Rice our elixir? Is the enigma in the larger than life photographs a reflection or a prophecy of humanity? How do you nourish your inner hunger?
Do you understand the Chinese, or inversely, yourself? Does it matter? Are my hopes any different from yours?
Chinese consciousness dignifies, magnifies, and perpetuates itself in a new paradigm.
My greetings to you!
Chee Wang Ng 吳子雲 |
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