The performance.
In the work What Makes Life Immortal? The glass diamond shears are anthropomorphic, they finished the last stage of life like a living person, that is, after the completion of its mission or the meaning of existence, with their own unique nature of the background colour of the funeral ceremony and cremation ceremony, a complete collection of the so-called ashes and storage in a hot glass urn. This whole process is a cycle of life, and it is also a cycle of glass as a material as we glass artists use it, from glass billets to the glass diamond shears and back to glass sheards that can be recycled again. Now, back to the original question about essence and existence which comes first? The question is obvious after this artistic demonstration. This whole artistic demonstration has been recorded and edited into a performance art film.
A new pair of glass-made diamond shears tightly grab the urn mouth which symbolises the new generation finishing the loop, to create a scenario when people face the loss of their important ones as well as the reaction when they are facing death. Meanwhile, it could also be interpreted as the new generation inheriting and developing the crystallization of cultural heritage and spiritual wealth based on what is left by the old generation. In that way, the existence of each individual is meaningful, the impact of everyone on the surroundings produces a chain reaction. From the perspective of existentialism, everything that individual in their life creates the value of life and the meaning of existence in the present. The meaning of life lies in continuous experience and exploration, and each person is influencing Others around, which enlightened me on the basic meaning of existence for human beings.
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