PANAXIA

Hong Kong, 2018

Ginseng Art House, Sulwhasoo

“The Ginseng has a tough soul,
like winter plum blossoms’ sprawl,
thriving amidst the snow,
Where flakes fall to winter’s call.”

It is a story of persistence and resilience against hardships, a translation of bitterness into gratitude over thousands of years. Downy flakes scatter, fall and frost in tranquillity and silence.

The juxtaposition of ginseng and snow, as if they were binary in time, gives the illusion of frozen time and beauty.

In light of the zoetrope-like technique (induced by Akinori Goto’s research in kinetic light sculpture and XCEED’s technique on the persistence of vision), the sculpture comes in the form of spiral ginseng root. The substantializes the blooms residing in every moment, comprised as a choreography of the winter flower, dancing for the fruit of endurance against the brutal weather.