Vipassanā · Zongtong Temple
4 December 2025 — 10 January 2026
- Material
- Photograph · Wat Jong Thong, Chiang Mai
Tea Pavilion · 9 of 21
Picture Story
The tea pavilion at Wat Jong Thong. Morning tea before the first sitting; pu-erh ripened tea-water later thinned with ink.
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.
《宗通寺》 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.
Ink · pu-erh ripened tea water · Chinese mineral pigments · charcoal · incense ash · raw xuan paper (35 × 50 m scroll and individual 35 × 35 cm and 35 × 100 cm panels).