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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Last year I received an invitation from the Shanghai Museum to exhibit my work. All the staff and people in my studio were ecstatic because after all I was born in China and until now I’ve never had a solo exhibition there. This was my first opportunity and I really cherished it. I wanted to somehow harness the energy of my lifetime and try to create something that isn’t really there something that cannot be bought. something that is not marketable. I wanted to create something totally original that really represents who I am as an artist. I have been using the incense ash as a medium for the past two years. I’ve been making cubes small ones or large ones using compacted ash and I thought about how I could use this as a medium to create something that’s never been seen before. It led to the creation of Canal Building. Originally I was thinking about filling the entire inside of the rectangle with ash but even if we collected all of the incense ash from the metropolitan area of Shanghai we still wouldn’t have had enough to fill the whole space within so what we had to do is actually use an armature to make a frame to support the ash. One solid block of ash would really have fulfilled my need as an artist. (MP)