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Earth Water Wind Fire
Earth Water Wind Fire
Earth Water Wind Fire

Earth Water Wind Fire

Color
Sound
4:3
Single-channel Video
production year /
2004
duration /
12'10

A plaster model of human head is placed in running water and steam, the plaster model continues to wear off as the water hits it, revealing red-color flesh-like texture underneath. This work integrates rarely linked forms of media: video and ceramic sculpture. In Buddhist teachings, all material things, from a speck of dust to the vast world, are composed of four basic elements-Earth, Wind and Fire. These elements, combine and disintegrate as a result of causes and effects. All materials things perpetually re-create, extinct and transmute. Ceramic sculpture or a human being is no exception. Existence is merely a tentative integration of the basic elements. The essence of life is transient.

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