A Route of Evanescence
Mia Liu
劉文瑄
Production date
2015
Object Detail
Media
paper on stainless steel
Measurements
170 x 230 x 60 cm
Notes
A Route of Evanescence reflects on memory and identity through the medium of paper. Developed from an earlier work based on the Möbius Strip, A Route of Evanescence was made in memory of the artists’ two grandmothers. Liu says that she had begun to think of time as infinite, and life as a loop. She remembered reading, as a child, the story of the One-Thousand Armed Guanyin, who wanted to save all humanity and prayed to have enough hands to do so: this work, says the artist, is like a prayer for her grandmothers, made over a long period of time, with more than a thousand hands. Mia Liu took her title from a poem by Emily Dickinson about a hummingbird:
‘A route of evanescence
With a revolving wheel;
A resonance of Emerald,
A rush of Cochineal;
And every Blossom on the Bush
Adjusts its tumbled Head –
The mail from Tunis, probably,
An easy Morning’s Ride.’
‘A route of evanescence
With a revolving wheel;
A resonance of Emerald,
A rush of Cochineal;
And every Blossom on the Bush
Adjusts its tumbled Head –
The mail from Tunis, probably,
An easy Morning’s Ride.’
Accession number
2016.261