Installation view
展場照
Process photograph 過程影像
Process photograph 過程影像
Process photograph 過程影像
Process photograph 過程影像
Process photograph 過程影像
Process photograph 過程影像
Prayer beads and sketch
念珠素描
Shi Jin-Hua
22 x 16.75 cm, 6 pcs (process photographs)
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I also had some ideas about measuring the bridges and tunnels in New York City, Lincoln Tunnel being a case in point. Lincoln Tunnel passed through Hudson River, connecting Manhattan Island in the east to New Jersey in the west. Since only cars were allowed to enter the tunnel, I rode in a car from Manhattan Island westward and passed through Lincoln Tunnel. As soon as I entered the tunnel, I started chanting “om mani padme hum” and counted the number of my chants with beads. As soon as my car left the tunnel and arrived in New Jersey, I stopped chanting and counting. Finally, I figured out the length of Lincoln Tunnel was equivalent to 221 “om mani padme hums.”
The action symbolizes the act of “crossing the bank to the other side” in Buddhism. The Hudson River symbolized the sea that surges, falls, and resurges, is the life that is born, dies, and is reborn again. The Lincoln Tunnel symbolizes bardo, an intermediate period of experiences between death and rebirth, during which one moves westward to find Pure Land, and during which people chant to help them with the process.
我對紐約市的橋梁與隧道的測量也有一些想法，林肯隧道是其中一個例子。林肯隧道穿越哈德遜河，連接東邊的紐約市曼哈頓島與西邊的紐澤西州。由於隧道只准許車輛進入，我於是自曼哈頓島乘車往西通過林肯隧道，一進入隧道就開始誦念六字大明咒「嗡嘛呢叭咩吽」，以念珠計算誦念的次數，當車子一離開隧道抵達紐澤西州時，立刻停止誦念與計數。最後，測量出林肯隧道的長度是221個「嗡嘛呢叭咩吽」。
這個行為象徵佛教中「到彼岸」的過程，哈德遜河猶如生死輪迴之海，林肯隧道則如中陰的階段——兩期生命的過渡階段，往西移動象徵求生淨土，整個過程以持咒的方式渡過生死。
Exhibitions
2017 “LINES - Shi Jin-Hua’s Contemporary Religious Art”, curated by Chen Hung-Hsing, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2004 “Visa for Thirteen”, MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
2004「Visa For Thirteen」，MoMA P.S.1 當代藝術中心，紐約，美國
Publications
2018 “Lines - Contemporary Religious Art by Shi Jin-Hua”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan2013 “Shi Jin-Hua”, Mind Set Art Center, Taiwan
2018《線 — 石晉華當代宗教藝術展》，高雄市立美術館，台灣
2013 《石晉華》，安卓藝術股份有限公司，台灣