"Currently working on: Road to Heaven (II). Paint water is the same color as vitamin water today! So any minute now..."
-reposted/ everywhere
Road to Heaven II (in progress)
(from IG: theparhelia)
Spring 2016 @ Lijiang Studio
"First American DrGe" (2014: from the VesicaPiscis.1 Book) /// Collaborative drawing: HeXiudong + WuZhimi
Back at the studio (February 22- May 16).
Should we give this session a name, or let it be a free-for-all?
Possible colors for Jixiang Orb: gold (outside), black (edges), red (inside). There aren't that many options to choose from, but they definitely stock those three in Jiahe City...
Gift for the Shaman's Father (Kite + Orb) /// Photo: Samantha Silver
Processing Aztlan Shangri-La
Just returned from Nicaragua; working on some writing, to explicate...
I did stop in to New York for a few days to deal with some boxes. Big thanks to all my friends who helped- and to everyone who hosted/ assisted me during last month's travels. This week I'll be observing Lunar New Year's Eve/ Day with family in California.
If you are in LA, check out the shows up now at Superchief and Hive Gallery!
SITE: UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Nicaraguan Coat of Arms: features mountains, a rainbow, and red smurf's hat
Well I had shut the whole thing down for a month... and now the old site is back with zero updates- because i need it up for a minute. Still don't have the time to make all the changes just yet, but i will, soon- before February's end.
A theory I overheard this week: La Primera Dama's metal "Tree of Life" spiral public sculptures serve as energetic dowsers (re: geological acupuncture)...
Google: "metal" "trees" "Nicaragua"
An Ode to Elegua
Clowning with jugglers at a traffic intersection in San Juan (Puerto Rico). This was a new kind of challenge for me, to abbreviate show into short, simple acts with exaggerated physical motions (time duration of a traffic light, stage size of a wide intersection, audience seated in stalled/ moving cars). The exercise also read as a channelling + meditation on Elegua, a Santeria spirit who is associated with children, religion, honesty/ communication, tricksters, roads/ intersections, and divination/ prayer.
"Hola" @ Puerto Rico
January 22nd-28th: in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Visiting the Poncili house, meeting new friends with great ideas, reasons to celebrate. Beginning a meditative contemplation on Water as an element and resource.
Possibly relevant Links:
Roberto Paradise- Poncili Creacion- POPA (Paula I. del Toro)- Lulu Varona- Kuniklo
MeTABOLISM @ Nomad Rhizome
"anamnesis" :: on knowing- forgetting- remembering (re: plato)
The Rhizome is currently propagating somewhere in the back corners of G.G. NiX Vintage in Brooklyn, New York. I went, I witnessed: roots, shoots, and nodes. I dropped off copies of S + D's Melt With Us.
We participate as fractal cells, within + encompassing (micro/ macro) systems of consciousness. Resistance is futile, even in death.
Further inquiries, venture elsewhere: www.enormousface.com
(Thank you: to K, G, D, J, and rest of the staff at The Pleasure Palace)
PRIMORDIUM* Tour 2016
Tour Schedule + Dates:
1/11-1/21: residency @ Nomad Rhizome (Brooklyn, NY)
1/21-1/28: San Juan, Puerto Rico
1/28-2/4: Managua, Nicaragua
2/4-2/7: New York, NY
2/7-2/15: Los Angeles, CA
2/16-5/16: Kunming/ Lijiang, Yunnan, China
5/20-6/30: Baltimore, MD
*Formerly: "Yaya Purgation"... but we're done with that
**Post-July dates/locations TBA
Miami Art Basel 2015
And now I find myself in Miami... Exploring North Beach and nearby vicinity (Dec. 3-7th); Looking for trouble. Catch me if you can!
(Edit: 20151206:0917:SUN) UPDATE: Experiments with "Dava" as a "real name."
(Edit: 20160306:1748:SUN) UPDATE: I made an [album].
*** Many thanks to the people of: Ningun Solicitar, Artist-Run, the Satellite Show, Tiger Strikes Asteroid... and Shaina, Sarah, and Zuri, for being my Miami family.
"what is muted"
"191 Henry St //manhattan\\oct3//6pm"
"live cinema"
Lijiang Studio: INDEX
This is happening at City Bird Gallery, from September 20th to October 3rd.
For specific event dates/ times: http://www.lijiangstudio.org/blog/
Brooklyn Wildlife Summer Festival 2015
Saturday Sept 12th- Closing Party at Wildlife Loft (9pm- late)
Last night at the Loft: WuZhimi conducted a basic blessing ritual w/ Tiger Dance, and afterwards, we roasted + ate the chicken offering.
Thanks to Rain/ Chris / everyone at Brooklyn Wildlife for having us this year.
Quadrivium: Infinite @ City Bird
WuZhimi offering Numerology readings at the opening event of upcoming show Quadrivium: Infinite. Stop in for a free reading on September 10th at City Bird Gallery.
Extracted from the show statement:
"Arithmetic. Geometry. Music. Cosmology. City Bird Gallery is proud to announce the opening of "Quadrivium : Infinite," our latest exhibition exploring concepts and philosophies of The Four Ways.
Also referred to as "the place where four roads meet," Quadrivium is part of the seven classical liberal arts and traverses the realms of numbers, sound, space and time."
Frog Wing will also be presenting some work- including the Wire Mandala. If you come by the gallery sometime while this show is up, you can manhandle the mandala in person! (gently).
Opening Show: Thursday, 09.10.2015 | 7-11 p.m.
Closing Show: Thursday, 09.17.2015 | 7-11 p.m.
**Gallery will be open for viewings throughout the week. (09.11 - 09.15, 1-6 p.m.)
Curated by Zaria Poem
Featured Artists:
Cat Chow // Chris Mendoza // Frog Wing // Lehna Huie // Lion Ayodele // Megan Watters // Michel Karsouny // Wu Zhimi
Chinatown @ City Bird
Dongba apprentice WuZhimi will be participating in City Bird Gallery's Chinatown Show (August 17th-21st). Featuring: six artists who live/ work in Chinatown, Feng Shui readings, shamanic consultation, and an erhu performance (Monday only). Tea and snacks will be served all week, but if you can, come to the tea party on Thursday, August 20th.
Wuxing Bagua in the Palm of Your Hand- diagram sketch by HeXiudong and WuZhimi
Featured Artists: Ashley Thompson, Cat Chow, Meng Ting Zhou, Vincent Zhao, Wang Zhao, Yang Lee-Shuan)
Dongba Consultation: Wu Zhimi
Feng Shui: Zhong Ming
Erhu: Lu Ming Hao
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City Bird Gallery: 191 Henry St, New York, New York 10002
Event page: [link]
Jixiang Village Orb
In Lijiang for Summer Session 2015 (May 13-July 23)
Just launched this fundraiser for a giant Molecule-Orb to be installed in Jixiang Village, at the turn of the road to Erge's house/ Lijiang Studio. Neighbors have approved. Would be honored if you contribute and join us in this project! Your name in metal when finished (with your permission).
吉祥 (ji2 xiang2): n. good luck
Patches for Sale
Selling patches (and other art-objects) at various sites in New York.
Contact me if you want one mailed to you; Specify which design/ colors you prefer (top 3 choices).
Designs: elephant, rainbow, trident (2 circles+knot), flying frog (with trident), flying frog (without trident), master sheet (all together)
Colors: black, red, navy, pink hexagons, light gray, speckled tan
Yin & Yang // Some Lovers
I finally started an Instagram account!
And I changed my name to Frog Wing. It's only a one-letter difference.
Follow: @theparhelia
Camel House Group Show
MuLenxi and HeQiang with a Kite
"Vesica Piscis"
Date: December 7th, 2014
stories: Viccy Adams, photography: Samantha Silver, drawings/ installation: CJ Hill, sculpture: Frog Wing, Dongba funeral scroll: HeXiudong + WuZhimi
Curated by Frog Wing
more photos and info [here]
Working @ JiyunSi
Sitting outside JiyunSi Tibetan Buddhist temple in Lashihai, painting colors on the scroll while waiting for Eric (our Canadian visitor). Monks approaching me to chat- a mutual curiosity.
A lady counting prayer beads, chanting under her breath, came over to watch me paint. She didn't say anything, but nodded and made cooing sounds of approval.
Later, after she walked away, I asked someone who she was, and they told me that she was the mother of one of the monks, visiting him on site.
A van pulled up, parked nearby. Monks started running back and forth with huge piles of blankets, carrying cardboard boxes, shouting and waving a framed portrait of an older Lamaist. I asked what was happening, and one responded that some of the monks are "moving upstairs."
I asked why, and he gave me an answer that I didn't understand. Most of the ones I asked, told me they lived downstairs. When asked what was the difference, they couldn't explain. When asked if there was division by age, one said, "no."
Together they dragged giant empty steel vats across the stone floor in unison, which created a low humming, droning buzz… echoing through the trees.
I asked what it was for, and they answered: “For garbage!”
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When Eric returned, he was happy to announce that he met a guy from Shenzhen at the temple, someone who came up to him and started speaking English.
The man said that he wasn't Buddhist, but he was volunteering there because his wife was Buddhist, and she said that there would be no love if he didn't try doing this thing. He signed on to do six months, but admitted to Eric that he didn't think he could ever be Buddhist.
"All this stuff on the walls… Buddhism is so complicated! I just don't get it," he said.
I thought he should try Daoism or Zen Buddhism; those are much simpler versions of similar philosophies. Tibetan Buddhism is super-complicated. It's flowery, ornate, grandiloquent. Sometimes I see Dongba as her more relaxed, flexible, moderately anarchic cousin.
Eric said that when he peeked inside the temple, where young monks were playing drums and trumpeting long metal horns and chanting, one monk had a balloon and was letting it deflate loudly, mimicking the holy horn-blowing in a hilariously comical way.
To see website chapter on the scroll, check here: Roads to Heaven
Coloring Xiuqu @ Black Dragon Pool
Working at the Dongba Research Institute, located inside Black Dragon Pool.