Ho Siu-Kee: A Chronicle of Mountain Making
In October 2020, I wrote five pieces of text about 鈥渕ountains鈥� to consolidate the main concepts relating to the works of the mountain making series. Grouped under the main title of A Chronicle of Mountain Making, the five pieces are Pangu, The Five Great Mountains, The Three Mythical Mountains, The Kunlun and The Sumeru, and the story starts with the creation of land and sky. In the writing, I imagined myself travelling back to the very beginning when the universe was a void, where I witnessed the death of Pangu, whose body became the land, and I saw the first formation of mountains and rivers. The Five Great Mountains indicating the five directions of the world (east, west, south, north and the centre) were a wonder of creation, and they would become the goals of explorers and conquerors, and inspiration for poets and writers in the years to come. Mountains are not only part of the Nature, but also a testimony of history and the humanities.
To me, writing A Chronicle of Mountain Making is a journey through space and time unrestricted by physical obstacles. To say it in an enigmatic way, it seems as if I have witnessed the evolution of the universe in my writing, bringing back inspiration for my sculptural works of the mountain making series. In these tumultuous years, peace is not readily found. The mythical stories mentioned in the text have nothing to do with the reality, at least not directly related. I read and savour these stories in my leisure time. We are unable to have control over everything in a chaotic world but still, our heart needs a quiet place to take a rest. While I do not expect many to share the same, I am able to put my mind at ease when I recall what Yang Jiang (Note 1) writes in her Looking back on A Hundred Years of Life, 鈥淭he world is our own and has nothing to do with others鈥�.
In October 2020, I wrote five pieces of text about 鈥渕ountains鈥� to consolidate the main concepts relating to the works of the mountain making series. Grouped under the main title of A Chronicle of Mountain Making, the five pieces are Pangu, The Five Great Mountains, The Three Mythical Mountains, The Kunlun and The Sumeru, and the story starts with the creation of land and sky. In the writing, I imagined myself travelling back to the very beginning when the universe was a void, where I witnessed the death of Pangu, whose body became the land, and I saw the first formation of mountains and rivers. The Five Great Mountains indicating the five directions of the world (east, west, south, north and the centre) were a wonder of creation, and they would become the goals of explorers and conquerors, and inspiration for poets and writers in the years to come. Mountains are not only part of the Nature, but also a testimony of history and the humanities.
To me, writing A Chronicle of Mountain Making is a journey through space and time unrestricted by physical obstacles. To say it in an enigmatic way, it seems as if I have witnessed the evolution of the universe in my writing, bringing back inspiration for my sculptural works of the mountain making series. In these tumultuous years, peace is not readily found. The mythical stories mentioned in the text have nothing to do with the reality, at least not directly related. I read and savour these stories in my leisure time. We are unable to have control over everything in a chaotic world but still, our heart needs a quiet place to take a rest. While I do not expect many to share the same, I am able to put my mind at ease when I recall what Yang Jiang (Note 1) writes in her Looking back on A Hundred Years of Life, 鈥淭he world is our own and has nothing to do with others鈥�.
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