Yutian Pit Firing

I am Chun Mengtian, blood brother of Chun Mengsheng. When we were born we were conjoined twins. Every day we cried for Grandmother's milk. Then one day we said we'd go see the sunrise. We ran with all our strength. As it turned out, one went east. The other went west. Later, Mengtian discovered the world has no light. And Mengsheng discovered all things in a primordial chaos. From then on the brothers never saw each other again. Until one day……

January 2015, Yutian Lake, Jingdezhen. The artist Lao Mu, using humanity's most ancient pit-firing technique, placed two self-portrait sculptures into the fire. A night of scorching — broken, headless, crumbling to powder. In this uncontrollable destruction, 「Meng Chunsheng」 was born at the threshold of ashes and dream — the younger of conjoined twin brothers, gone west into chaos, the moon glowing in the dark. Eleven years have passed; Lao Mu and Meng Chunsheng still stand opposed.