Ching Ke Lin Clouds of Smoke-Radiance, 2024
Bamboo
110 x 37.5 x 35.5 inches
Presented by Fremin Gallery
Clouds of Smoke-Radiance draws inspiration from nature and resembles a boundless dance performance, reimagining bamboo sculpture. Twilight’s gentle glow reveals a brilliant orange hue, filling the sky with warmth and brightness. Bamboo, known for its toughness, transforms, like twilight, into vibrant colors and elegance, sparking imagination.
Ching Ke Lin dyed each strip of bamboo orange and wove them together to present a lively overlapping scene. The “circular weaving” technique, used in traditional bamboo lanterns, stacks bamboo strips at the same angle to form a spiral-shaped round opening with a star-like appearance. Ching Ke Lin builds on this, connecting circular weavings to create an unconventional rhythm.
Artist Bio
Ching Ke Lin is a bamboo artist, who keeps delving into the land, exploring the common ground between humans and bamboo, and refining his creative vocabulary in the law of nature. Realizing that bamboo is tough yet flexible, carrying the philosophy of life, creative potential, and technical culture of humankind beyond time and space, Lin has embraced his devotion to the spirit of all things, traveling into nature and exploring the bamboo world with his playful heart.
His installations and landscape works have subverted the public’s conventional image of bamboo craftsmanship and have always conveyed a childlike and humorous insight into ordinary life, evoking people’s affection for the land and environment. Furthermore, Lin has been commissioned by Uniqlo, Mercedes-Benz, Nousaku, KITOKITO TOYAMA, 7-Eleven, and PX Mart.
In his unbounded thinking in design, experimentation, ideas and practices, Ching-ke Lin expects to continue to look at the present and past of the industry from a wider perspective to dissolve the barriers between people, bamboo, time and space, breaking the traditional image of bamboo, and creating a contemporary look of the material.