Guan Yin by Guy Laramee

Amazing exquisite.

2012-06-13

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设计公司: :; Guy Laramée
类型: :; Art
标签: :; book Paper

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Appreciation towards Guy Laramee for providing the following description:

艺术家Guy Laramee受东方哲思影响，继创作出The Great Wall之后，又创作出名为Guan Yin的系列作品。这系列作品中的纸雕部分更为精妙和让人赞叹。

Guy Laramee于2011年母亲的逝去中感受到光阴可惜，譬诸流水。一去不返有岁月，也有生命，还有生命所携带裹夹的所有记忆，爱与文化。母亲去世后日本发生了海啸，艺术家认为在这冥冥之中一定有着什么关系。这神秘的力量如果不是神，那就是某种“不确实的存在”。这种存在陪伴着我们，也陪伴着艺术家的创作。

Prajna Paramita. Carved artist book. 2011. 45 x 20 x 58 cm (15 x 8 x 22 inches)

In Advance of a Broken Land (Tsunami). Altered book, inks. 2012. 15 x 16 x 22 cm
(9 x 6.5 x 8.5 inches)

My mother died in 2011. I was with her when she took her last breath. In fact there was no last breath. Each breath grew smaller and smaller. I took her pulse when it appeared that there would not be another breath. I like to think that there was one last tiny heart beat, but in fact there was no end. Only a growing silence which continues now.

It was a couple of days after Japan’s tsunami. Images that devastated me. I like to think that through these images and the anxiety that they triggered in me, I anticipated my mom’s death. But I can’t be sure of anything anymore, can I ?

Everything we know, everything we did, everything we think we are, everything and everyone we love, all this will be wiped out. We would like to think that something will remain, culture, knowledge, or call it “life” if you don’t want to call it God, but of this also, we have no certitude. “No certitude” seems to be the only one we have, but even this is a concept, and concepts are the first thing to go down the drain, aren’t they ?

This project is dedicated to the mysterious forces thanks to which we can traverse ordeals.