Becoming a Monk

Becoming a Monk | Lao Mu (Mu Yuming).

From 2012 to 2013, Mu Yuming took short-term monastic ordination in Myanmar, wearing the crimson kāṣāya and practicing meditation in the tropical jungle. This was not a religious conversion but a 「going under」 artistic infiltration — entering the religious institution in flesh, returning the experience to creation. 「I went in, but I never forgot who I am.」 This ordination became the religious antecedent of the later 「Three Years Retreat」 project, opening the artistic transformation from 「flight」 to 「facing」, from individual practice to the theatre of relations.