Ksana No. 8

Ksana is a Buddhist term that signifies the shortest unit of time - an instant. Should we qualify ksana with the measurement system we are used to, it is equivalent to one seventy-fifth of a second. In Buddhist sutras, it is explained that ‘900 arisings and 900 ceasings’ are happening within each ksana, in other words, a fair amount of action goes on in a split second. What Eastern philosophies refer to as arisings and ceasings, Western science defines as a perpetual state of change of the matter - a jiggly dance of tiny electric planetary system that modern scientists also call atoms. With thousands of such little sticker-atoms Ye Hongxing constructs a portrait of what an instant could look like. A matter zoomed under a microscope. Something not-quite-flower, not-quite-bird, floating mid-air, as though mid-way through a physical transformation. The elements merge into one another, with certain parts reappearing just to morph back into the canvas itself. The moment of constant becoming captured and framed with Ye Hongxing’s artistic vision.
Ksana’s imagery vibrates with motion.