🍉 + Wukong
🍉 + 悟空
Oil on canvas
50 × 200 cm, 2025
“We became aware that history is too long and prophets too many.
We came to understand that space is diverse and enwrapping—not a cell—
and that no one can monopolise land, God, or memory.
We also know that history is neither fair nor graceful.
Our mission, as human beings, is that we are at once the victims of history and its makers.
And the incurable disease we suffer from is hope…
Hope that will restore this place to its original meaning: a land of love and peace.
Thank you for carrying this burden of hope with us.”
–– Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet, speech, 2002
Oct 1, 2024
Absolutely blown away by 黑神话：悟空 (Black Myth: Wukong) ! ! ! Coolest game ever. This is the kind of Chinese pop culture I’ve been waiting for.
有所本，方可创 — No roots, no fruit.
Art needs soil — the classical canon — to grow.
Bursting with pride 🇨🇳❤️🔥
Meanwhile, Concord (launched the same week, with Sony’s backing and twice the budget) — that Woke 💩, like grass growing out of concrete 😳
The Greeks carved eternity into stone; the Chinese wrote it into text.
