27 April, 2022 - On Repairing: for the past or for the future?

Recent, I have read this book on Chinese mounting technique. In a chapter, the author records how he and his colleague repaired an ancient scroll. 


The repairing reminds me there are many institutions around the world making painstaking effort to preserve and recover the ancient materials. I think this is a spectrum which I really want to study, as well as what the Diamond Sutra, the first printed book, may indicate. The history, our collective memory, are such an important and touchable part of our life, even if we haven't lived in the ancient time. Situatedness? Mirroring? What can we gain from the ancient material? Why we keep on repairing? Are we care about the past, and repair for the future? Do we unconsciously situate ourselves in a non-linear temporal structure that links the past and the future to one moment?


Upper: a damaged ancient scroll; Lower:The damaged ancient scroll before and after repairing

work 1 & 2  ( to be mounted)
other works (to be mounted) 

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