The Sutra of Doomsday
Digital Print: 24*40 inches
Presented Book: Chinese Character Indexes, Volume 1 Telegraphic Code index
Acrylic Platform
2019.10
The content of these codes is the prediction of doomsday by Buddha- Sakyamuni before his nirvana.
Numbers and mathematics, this universal symbolic language that everyone can understand, exist before and after human beings, along with the universe.
Here, the Chinese telegram code, which was used by the Chinese Ministry of Communications in the last century, is used to represent the Buddha's Sutra. In this work, Index, numbers, those ever existed things explain the destruction of our world. This is an intentional oxymoron to metaphorize the negligibility and powerlessness of being human.
All religions are different paths to the ultimate truth. Although the content of this work is from Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity and other religions also have similar classics that describe doomsday. Numbers once again serve as a universal language to metaphorize the commonality of different religions.
If someone intends, he or she can use the dictionary to look up, although it is impossible to translate word by word, the content is translatable. Still, like human's powerlessness, we cannot reach the final point though we know it is there.
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数字微喷 24*40 英寸
2019.10
在这篇密文里，讲述了释迦摩尼佛涅槃前预言佛法消失的那一刻，描绘人类末日景象的故事。
数字，作为一种普世性的，所有人都看得懂的符号语言，是可以脱离一切独立存在的，是哪怕在世界毁灭之后也不会消失的真理，先于人类之前并后于人类之后，与宇宙永存。
在此，我利用上个世纪中国通讯部使用的中文电报码，将中文翻译成数字，并用永不毁灭的数字阐述关于毁灭的内容，用矛盾修辞法隐喻人类的渺小与无力。
我始终认为所有宗教都是到达终极真理不同的分支路径。所以即使内容是佛教的经典，伊斯兰教，基督教或其他经典里也都有相似的内容。数字再次作为普世性的语言，来隐摄不同宗教的共通性。
黑底白字的数字是如此的平静，没有人知道这背后触目惊心的含义。就像人类在安于当下现状的同时，也难以想象世界末日的触目惊心一样。或许有一天终于有人醒悟，尝试在这宇宙爆炸的前一刻跳出轮回，就像现在，或许你会马上拿起旁边的字典开始查询这些数字背后真正的意义一样。
