Seeing,Feeling & Thinking(10)

Between Substance and Vacuity, Being and Nothingness
Oil on Linen 192x257cm 1989

One who can swim among the universal space-time must be able to swim in and out with ease and comfort through any medium, such as the vacuum, the clear water and the hard land.

Turning over from the sea water, the energetic boy with goggles is now swimming towards the fresh water to meet the girl. The mysterious dark brown sky with numerous twinkling stars is half covered with a towering ice cap congealed by the sea water. And the one and only sound filled around the land and the grove beneath the sky is silence.

Look! A cluster of dragon-shaped clouds points its tail at the sea waves in a hilarious way. And the big cloud bank beyond the sea horizon presents a striking contrast to the sailing 17th century's Dutch vessel. In the upper right-handed corner, the upside-down shiny land seems shares the same blue sky with the red-brown seashore. What an amazing scenery the painter created !

These imaginative and creative skies, lands and seas appear to be broken but actually linked in a continuous cycle, thus make the universe a deep illusion and a multi-dimensional fantastic world, a world Between Substance and Vacuity, Being and Nothingness.

T. Y. Sheng