Vipassanā · Conceptual Performance / Ink-as-Action / Meditation Archive
4 December 2025 — 10 January 2026
He
- Dimensions
- 90 × 35 cm
3 of 19
Picture Story
"He" is the father who has just departed.
"He" is the divine — the father of humankind.
"He" is the great elder in the crystal coffin opposite the treatment room, leading all sentient beings.
"He" is the philosophy behind the miracle — the higher observer.
Project Story
From 4 December 2025 to 10 January 2026, the artist Lao Mu undertook a forty-one-day intensive Vipassanā retreat at Wat Jong Thong (宗通寺) in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Throughout the retreat, painting served as an action-record, leaving traces of movement on a 35 cm × 50 m raw xuan paper scroll.
《Zongtong Temple》 is the extreme meeting of conceptual performance and the ink tradition. Between observer and observed exists an angle — that is the 'who am I?' The forty-one days were not a search for an answer, but time's material sedimentation: letting the question surface on its own.