郑学武《禅说》资料

Arts Meditation

I named my art “Meditation”.

The works, from the media point of view, include two series - printmaking and installation. I have been working on the two series for about 30 years.

In addition, I have just started the video creation of the "Meditation" series of works, which is the third part.

After many years of creating, especially in these recent two years of studying at SUNY New Paltz, I gradually figured out that my artistic creation is actually my life meditation.

During years of evolving, the printmaking and installations that I have created, as well as the new video works, are actually my meditation on life.

The installation part of the "Meditation" started in 2005. Now it has been around 15 years continue creation.

The materials I use are handmade paper, newspapers, Bibles, and Buddhism books from different countries around the world. The creative method I use is rubbing, rolling, knitting, twisting, kneading, hand-pressing, etc. All by hand. In the last two years, pottery materials have also been added.

As an artist, I put my artistic creation under the state of "Meditation". I work on art by accumulating the repeated labor work every day, every week, every month, every year.

Breaking the boundary of the disciplines

In the years of the creation of the "Meditation" series of works, I usually frequently break the boundaries between printmaking and installations:

For example, The second form in my installation "Meditation", Uses a group of small paper flowers that are rolled by hand from religious books such as newspapers, bibles, and Buddhism. Print screen prints. In an exhibition, these newspaper flower "Meditation" installation works were displayed with silkscreen printmaking works. Together they became a new kind of artwork-"installation print".

When I create artworks and think about art, it is also a process of my own meditation and self- development. This creative process is more important than the final works. The practice of art is endless. The inner experience during difficult exploration is always dreamy and wonderful for me. "Meditation" is the content of my life and the state of my life.

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