Guirensi Temple
28 November — 28 December 2025
Arhats
- Dimensions
- 135 × 35 cm
3 of 11
Picture Story
Charcoal and pigment on raw xuan paper, 135 × 35 cm, painted at Guirensi Temple, Taining, between November and December 2025.
A procession of arhats rendered in yellow ochre against a deep teal ground — six luminous figures at left and centre, one shadow-cast silhouette breaking the line at the right edge. Paint and ash together; presence and absence on one sheet.
Project Story
《Guirensi Temple》 is an in-situ creation project carried out by the artist Mu Yuming at Guirensi Temple in Taining, Fujian, from 28 November to 28 December 2025. A small village shrine hidden in a mountain hollow, kept day-to-day by a local villager — the "temple keeper" — the place presents an ecology distinct from institutional monasteries: the villagers treat the temple as their own courtyard, sweeping at dawn, offering incense, tidying the altar, footsteps merging softly with the morning mist rolling through the hills.
The artist remained there for a full month, holding "my life is my art" as the core principle and fusing daily practice with artistic creation.
Self-made charcoal (from tea-fire embers) · raw xuan paper · ink