Extended from the 2010 projects X Trees in Taipei and X Bodhi Trees, SHI Jin-Hua’s poetic new work Basalt under the Bodhi Tree is a rubbing/drawing of a basalt stone. SHI planted the first tree of his project X Bodhi Trees at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in 2010 and placed a basalt stone beside it, not in the monumental upright position, but horizontally so to provide a place where the mind could be settled and consoled. Years after planting the tree, SHI came back to capture an image of the stone by means of monoprint and drawing. The drawing is accompanied by the lyric of Leonard Cohen’s song A Thousand Kisses Deep as a reflection of the ups and downs in the life.

《菩提樹下的玄武岩》拓展了藝術家2010年的創作計畫《台北的X棵樹》（後改名《X棵菩提樹》）。在2010年於高雄市立美術館種下《X棵菩提樹》計畫裡的第一棵樹五年之後，石晉華以拓畫的方式在宣紙上留下伴隨這棵樹的玄武岩，並抄寫Leonard Cohen所演唱的《A Thousand Kisses Deep》歌詞，映照出面對人生道路中跌宕起伏的心境。