Masterfully challenges traditional non-objective staging by elevating common raw materials into a multi-layered, biomorphic statement within the field of international black and white abstract photography. Part of Shine Huang’s critically acclaimed Interstellar practice, tracking the strict relationship between Chinese folklore cosmology—where the sky behaves as a sphere—and the permanent nature of matter. The vertical tondo arrangement tracks an intense, deeply meditative graphic rhythm where hand-pulverized rice grains are meticulously scattered across photosensitive mediums, creating a shimmering silver galaxy that splits the frame against a square background void.
 
The galaxy like silver particles scattered on the giant black circle which floating in the square frame. That is a complexity of artist’s concept formation and culture practicing. In the Chinese folklore, people believe the universe is a circle and the ground are a square (flat). The “galaxy” is the result of the rice being manually grind in the mortar and pestle. With the pass of the time, the form of the rice changed from grain to refined powder. The powder and grain are carefully placed on the photographic paper in the darkroom then exposed to the light to make image. In this process of image making, time is highly involved, physically and conceptually. Time can change lots of things: the shape of the things, the form of the things, but the essential of the things will still be remained. 
 
 
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