Saturday, January 25, 2014

Esplanade presents Visual Arts

Soaring Dragons (飞龙在天)in conjunction with Hua Yi Festivals of Arts is a artworks by Carl Cheng Chi Ming from Hongkong
This new work is made of 200 bamboo ladders symbolising one of the four aspects of nobility and good social standing in Chinese culture constructed in the form of a dragon.  It represents the economic and social success of the Chinese achieved through hard work.
Soaring Dragon is based on the qian chapter of the book of Changes ( Yi Jing), one of the oldest Chinese classics text and a book of divination and wisdom.
With the Dragon a symbol of greatness and the sky a symbol of transcendence.  Soaring Dragon suggests that people of greatness are now in the right places to lead others to success.