Guirensi Temple
28 November — 28 December 2025
Shared Practice
- Dimensions
- 53 × 37 cm
7 of 11
Picture Story
Charcoal on raw xuan paper, 53 × 37 cm. A top-down view of the meditation circle — four figures on low stools gathered around a lamp on a red platform. Dabao, Erbao, the master, a fellow practitioner. The month's quiet centre.
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