Stone of time and space

By Yichuan Yue

Painting & Graphic Design

The Stone of Time series aims to offer a way to rethink the relationship between man and the world. Parallel space-time is the mother theme and the prerequisite for this series. The cave of heaven is the dwelling place of the Chinese Taoist gods, both as a self-contained, self-sufficient space for cultivation and as a gateway to the realm of the immortals and the higher dimensions. In ancient times, there are many records, writings and paintings of cave dwellings. The world viewed by different practitioners at different levels of cultivation was also very different. This has given me great insight. This led to the idea of co-locating scenes from different times and spaces on the same plane.There are many cultural concepts common to both East and West, such as gourds, Klein bottles, caves, wormholes and caverns, all of which are pathways connecting the real world with another distant world. These two worlds are far apart in space, but by crossing the pathway that connects them, the space and time necessary to move through them can be reduced. It is therefore a tipping point, a medium to a heterogeneous space, distorting and linking different spaces in time and within it an infinite universe. "In the great we see the small, in the small we see the great, in the void we see the real, in the real we see the void." In the fantastical world of the Taoist Cave of Bliss, we can feel the big universe within the small one, the spirit of the pot of heaven that holds the universe within the small, closed emptiness, the interconnectedness of the big and small universes, the unity of all things. Each world, large or small, has its own time system, where spring and winter exist simultaneously, where the past and the future coexist. When it becomes possible to travel freely through different time and space, when the past, present and future can be freely chosen, what does the world and life mean to you?