Meng-Hua
Meng-Hua land is only the basic embodiment of people’s current situation and wishes, like a mirror, has been waiting around us. In ancient China, the legendary Emperor Huang Di once had a dream of a country named Hua Xu, where people want nothing, living comfortably and contently. The dream helped him realize the power of governing through non-action – Wu Wei. The country in his dream Hua Xu also called Meng-Hua, was later used to refer to a world of great harmony that has no need for control, where people have no wants, which the ancient Chinese considered a fairyland. The new Meng-Hua wonderland has been integrated with modern people’s desires and social environment. It shows the most realistic things with the most dreamy scenes.
Meng-Hua is a 3D interactive work displayed in the form of AR. For me, this form of expression is a tool to combine dreams and reality. I hope the device would make dream a reality for a moment, after all, we are now living in an era of combining reality and the virtual, also the virtual world has a real impact on the physical world.
Meng-hua 2021
3-Dimensional Virtual Model
137.8 “ L x 137.8” W x 106.3” H
Yet modern-day Hua Xu is not the same as Emperor Huang Di’s Hua Xu, where people have no wants. It is a place where endless human desires are fulfilled, so much so these desires overflow into reality, affecting our everyday life/
In contemporary society, people tend to vent their emotions in the virtual world, which becomes the place where they can temporarily escape from the pressure they experience in life and work. The Internet has become a modern-day Hua Xu, the dreamland and sanctuary/
As we spend more of our time on the internet and in the virtual world, it becomes increasingly difficult to define and differentiate fantasy from reality, and I wonder if this is another form of “appearing illusional yet unveiling the truth (reality)”.
Stories of Meng-Hua
The display form of Meng-Hua refers to the style of traditional Chinese ink painting and builds a 3D model on the basis of traditional freehand brushwork.
Meng-Hua is a large-scale artwork. In addition to its conception, it also contains 7 works. Each work represents a relatively typical desire trend of modern Chinese people. These wishes are related to modern technology and the Internet in different ways and all echo the theme of Meng-Hua.
Each of these seven works tells a different story, and their different display forms and placements in Meng-Hua also reflect the status of these wishes in the hearts of people in modern Chinese society or the current status in society.
Meng-hua video display