metaphorical associations attached to the animal - one that represents generosity, its thread denoting history and society. through the narrative of
chinese tradition and this strong symbolic relevance, shaoji poetically articulates the sadness and conflict polluting human life in the purest of raw silk thread.
shaoji offers an ease or a softening of the ubiquitous violence, wrapping the hardness and phlegmatic sterility in an effort to soothe for a compelling
body of work
In an essay on the “Nature Series” that he wrote last year, Liang says: “Every life is in search for its own space for existence amid absurd and implacable contradictions. The strong silk threads, symbol of life, as if to break but resistant, show a strong will to life, an unremitting life pursuit, a force to beat the strong with softness, and life associations with endless extension.”
