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Holding Drink to Asking the Moon 把酒问月

Holding Drink to Asking the Moon is the master piece by LI Bai, the poet in the Tang Dynasty. In the form of text, the author gave an expression of the relationship between mankind and nature including their sentiments. LIU Ren believes that the intrinsic affective experience and its presentation always exist beyond modern technology. He takes the original body of the poem as a kind of conceptual material. Through a strong touch by hand combined with a manipulation of the media, it thus communicates and undertakes the emotional feeling in a subtle way and by means of the visual order of minimalist aesthetics. The verses “Men in our time do not see the ancient moon / But this moon did shine on men of yore / Men pass away like water, now as before / And all see the moon that remains for evermore” respond to the significance of the Moon over time and being as an aesthetic imagery.

《把酒问月》是唐代诗人李白的代表作品，作者以文学的形式表达了人与自然的关系与情感，刘任 相信这种本质的情感体验与表达是可以不受现代科技影响而存在的。他希望将诗的本体看作为一种 概念资料，通过强烈的手感体验与材料运用的巧妙结合，以一种极简主义美学的视觉⽅方式来输出并承载这种含蓄内敛的情感体验。“今人不见古时⽉月 ⁄ 今月曾经照古⼈ ⁄ 古⼈今⼈若流⽔ ⁄ 共看明月皆如此”这两句尤其回应了⽉亮作为东方意象之于时间与存在的意义。