Jingdezhen Five-Year Retreat

Project Story

A planned three-year retreat that extended to five. Mu used the name 梦春山 Meng Chunshan — 'Dreaming Spring Mountain' — during this period. Inside the retreat: the 《瓜子人》(Seed People) series (2014–2019), and the 《山海经心经》(Classic of Mountains and Seas · Heart Sutra) series (2015–2016). Partial exit in 2017 for wheelchair recovery (six months); 2018–2019 Maya and Dongba fieldwork across ten countries overlapped the final phase; the retreat formally concluded in 2019. The deepest ink and sculptural work of the practice was made here, in silence, under a name almost nobody knew.