Vowing Not to Attain Buddhahood Until All Are Salvaged from Hell 3
Bu Hua
卜桦
Production date
2008
Object Detail
Media
pigment inkjet print
Measurements
100 cm diameter
Notes
In Vowing not to Attain Buddhahood until all are salvaged from Hell No.3 (2008) Bu Hua’s Young Pioneer protagonist stands astride the skeleton of a deer in a desolate landscape lit as if by the flash of a nuclear explosion. Red fronds of foliage hang from above like tentacles. Birds, beasts and insects dart around the circular composition, an ironic inversion of the traditional Chinese moon window, designed to frame the serene beauty of a scholar’s garden. In this work only the naked child is calm and unmoved, a witness to the apocalypse.
Accession number
2008.014