"Laughing at the Ten Directions - Contentment and Happiness".

Paintings featured

• New realm of traditional ink painting: Maitreya Buddha's body is outlined with simple and sparse brushwork, the clothing pattern is made by the technique of "folding reeds", and the texture of the draping of the robe is revealed between the staccato lines; the smile on the face is shaped by a single stroke of withered and moist burnt ink, and the wrinkles at the corners of the eyes are like the spreading of lotus petals, which interpret the aesthetics of "the phase of no phase" in Zen paintings. "The facial smile is shaped by a single stroke of burnt ink, and the wrinkles at the corners of the eyes stretch out like lotus petals, interpreting the aesthetics of Zen paintings of "the phase of no phase.
• Philosophy of Color: The robe is colored in blue using the ancient technique of "seven dyes and three alums", with the bottom layer of clamshell white brightened and the surface layer overlaid with a thin dyeing of stone green, simulating the calm blue tones of oxidized Dunhuang frescoes, and forming a visual balance of warmth and coolness with the light ochre of the skin of the Maitreya Buddha.
• Inscription cryptography: the left and right sides of the picture are inscribed in both cursive and clerical script with the words "Smiling Mouth Always Closed" and "Big, Strong and Capable of Tolerance", with the text size staggered like a chime, of which the last stroke of the word "closed" is intentionally broken. The last stroke of the character "闭" is intentionally broken, concealing the Zen saying of "opening one's mouth is a mistake, closing one's mouth becomes enlightenment".

Details

1. Dharma metaphysics:
   • Maitreya Buddha is holding a total of 108 beads, each bead surface with "rice dot chapping" micro-painted Mount Sumeru pattern, the end of the string is tied with a bronze bell, the tongue of the bell is pointing to the title "Knowing enough is always happy", constituting a "hear the bell and realize! This constitutes the audio-visual sense of "enlightenment upon hearing the bell".
   • The folds at the hem of the robe conceal the miniature seal scripts of "ridiculous" and "difficult to tolerate", forming a visual maze through the difference in ink color, the viewer needs to take three steps back to identify the text, which is a metaphor for the philosophy of life: "One step back and the sky is wide open! This is a metaphor for the philosophy of life, "One step back and the world is wide open".
2. Inscription decoded:
   • The inscription "Nianmingtang" in vermilion seal script is a variation of the nine-stacked seal script, with the word "tang" embedded with the stem of "xinchou" (2021), and the border is worn to simulate the effect of ancient seals being passed on;
   • The "orgia" seal is in Xixia script, which is actually a variant of the Sanskrit word "ॐ" (Om), forming a religious symbol with the golden light of the "White Hair Phase" that emerges from Maitreya Buddha's brow. Closed Loop.

Artistic Value

• Zen iconography breakthrough: the first "smiling mouth always closed" Maitreya modeling, subverting the traditional smiling Buddha programmed performance, the corners of the mouth subtly drooped to convey the deep meaning of "mixed happiness and sadness", the direction of the facial muscles to refer to the Longmen Grottoes Rushena Buddha, which was verified by 3D modeling to conform to the golden ratio. The 3D modeling verifies that it conforms to the golden section ratio.
• Cross-temporal calligraphy experiment: the three characters of the inscription "Room World" are a fusion of oracle bone skeleton and pop art collage techniques, and the top of the character "Heaven" is embedded with QR code yin carving, which can be scanned to listen to the audio of the "Diamond Sutra" chanting, realizing the "calligraphy, painting, and sound" concept. The three-dimensional expression of "calligraphy, painting and sound" is realized.

Suitable Scene

• Home space:
  • The background wall of the living room with mortise and tenon structure teak frame, and rattan furniture with the construction of simple Zen style, it is recommended that every day at lunch time with a soft light downlight focus on the details of the Buddha beads, triggering the "bead light enlightenment" visual experience;
  • The tea room screen is made of silk reproductions, and when burning incense, the smoke lingers in the place where the "smiling mouth is always closed", which creates a meditative field of "quiet observation and silent speech".
• Commercial space: corporate lobby with bronze etched abstract screen, the picture and metal texture to form a rigid-flexible dialog, need to install constant humidity system (50% ± 5%) to protect the mineral pigments.

Purchase Notice

1. Raise and hide the secret:
   • Moisture: the use of Japanese Japanese paper "breathing" framing, sandwich built-in humidity memory fibers, moisture showing lotus flower warning pattern;
   • Avoid light: LED lighting limited color temperature 3000K, illuminance ≤ 200lux, to prevent the stone color material photolysis fading.

Collection significance

This work is not only a practice of ink and writing, but also a mirror for the viewer - when the mystery of "smiling mouth is always closed" is penetrated, the measure of "big and strong can be tolerated" will be revealed. Those "laughable" and "intolerable" hidden in the folds will eventually be transformed into the wisdom of nourishing the soul in the wisdom of contentment and happiness.