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Photography Portfolio Meditaion, Mystery & Dimension.

WEI-HUAH CHEN

Meditation, Mystery & Dimension. This series of practise is a chain of questions proposed by photography for the “reality in the real world (the psychological, physical, and spiritual truth)”. The following inscriptions are quoted from Chapter V, Great Void Illusion Land, from one of China’s Four Great Classical Novels, Dream of the Red Chamber: “Truth becomes fiction when the fiction’s true; real becomes not-real where the unreal’s real”, or “When the unreal is taken for the real, the real becomes unreal; where non-existence is taken for existence, existence is then non-existence.” The novel also states that, “Reality and illusion are often hinted side by side and difficult to differentiate”, from which the difficulty in discerning reality from fiction is expressed.

Only in the absence of the self, with emptiness casts into the void —— I am then transformed into a mirror. On the contrary, with the presence of the self, I then become a deceptive intermediary —— a window.

Meditation - Dedicated to my best friend, Stefanie.

When I gaze out from the soul to look deeply into a particular person, object, or setting, an infinite yet private sense of vastness is felt within, and it is difficult to describe the feeling with any existing words, symbols, or metaphors. I am lost in meditation, and a poetic phenomenon suddenly emerges. It reminds me that I am part of an infinite and eternal whole and realises that “The fictitious implies reality, the unadorned shows fantasy.”

“ If a person very close to us is dying, there is something in the months to come that we dimly apprehend -- much as we should have like to share it with him -- could only happen though his absence. We greet him at the last in a language that he no longer understands.” Walter Benjamin, “One-Way Street,” 1928

17 inch x 11 inch, Photo Rag. Inkjet print. 2010.

17 inch x 11 inch, Photo Rag. Inkjet print. 2008.

17 inch x 11 inch, Photo Rag. Inkjet print. 2013.

17 inch x 11 inch, Photo Rag. Inkjet print. 2009.

17 inch x 11 inch, Photo Rag. Inkjet print. 2010.

17 inch x 11 inch, Photo Rag. Inkjet print. 2011.

17 inch x 11 inch, Photo Rag. Inkjet print. 2010.

17 inch x 11 inch, Photo Rag. Inkjet print. 2011.

17 inch x 11 inch, Photo Rag. Inkjet print. 2009.

17 inch x 11 inch, Photo Rag. Inkjet print. 2012.

Mystery This practise investigates how the real world intermediary manipulates our senses and judgment. All phenomena and positivism in the material spacetime require the observation and affirmation of an “observer” to ratify its existence, and from which, the intermediary plays a pivotal role. The meaning of material existence and condition is constructed according to positivism. However, the observer firmly believes that “seeing is believing” and is thus entrapped by the notion; however, “ the invisible is actually often closer to reality than the visible. ”

“ Form Does not Differ From the Void, And the Void Does Not Differ From Form. Form is Void and Void is Form; The Same is True For Feelings, Perceptions, Volitions and Consciousness.” by Heart Sutra

Acrylic & Light , 22 x 30 cm, Inkjet print. 2013.

Balloon & Fire , 22 x 30 cm, Inkjet print. 2013.

Glycerol & Glass , 22 x 30 cm, Inkjet print. 2013.

Alcohol & Icecube , 30 x 22 cm, Inkjet print. 2013.

Dimension This series of practises is used as an exploration of spatial possibilities. For me, time is just one way of measuring progression through the indicators based on space, and space is determined by the perspective that an “Is-Be” uses to observe a target. The physical or psychological distance between an “Is-Be” and his / her target of observance is referred to as “space”. The question continuously being raised ponders on the issue of when looking at a mirrored image of an object, which one is actually the image? Similarly, the so-called right-hand side of a street is not its absolute position, because it would depend on the way you are facing.