Title: “SHI HE” (Meaning, “scholar’s box” in Chinese and pronounced, “she hay”)
Size: 34.75” W x 24.5” H (unframed)
Story:
Ever since the days of Confucius, the literati philosophers and scholars formed a shadow institution that controlled how China viewed the real world and the world of spirits and faith. Ruled exclusively by males they created a cultural monopoly that was handed down through the generations to their male successors. And one of the status symbols of their work and thoughts was the beautiful long scholar boxes that contained hand-written scrolls filled with their greatest thoughts. Today, I also use scholar boxes to celebrate the greatest truth… there is nothing more perfect and beautiful than the world around us and the bounty that nature provides.
Materials:
Acrylic and metallic paints on heavy hand-made watercolor paper, veiled in hand-made Japanese rice lace, bathed in a mixture of archival beeswax and UV-resistant polymers, bordered with wooden insets wrapped in Buddhist silk from the religious mills of Varanasi in India, adorned at each corner with wooden leaves from a mid-1800’s Chinese traveling altar, with outside panels of gold-leafed woven Thai bamboo paper, accented at top right with an early 1800’s Chinese charm depicting a fisherman known to bring abundance and affluence to he or she who holds it, affixed to the panel with melted religious wax collected from holy temples and monasteries.
For more information and pricing please contact Fine Art Etc. in Sausalito, CA at 415-332-1107.
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