生生 / Shēngshēng

Cut a tree open and you find time made visible. Each ring marks one year - drought or abundance, stillness or growth - layer upon layer , accumulating around a center that never moves. Growing up in Nanjing, one of the most forested cities in China, trees lined every street. Their shadow, their smell, the texture of bark accompanied me from the beginning. I sample these rings directly from real trees, bringing their actual texture into the work through screen printing. 

I have worked with this motif for fifteen years, first printed flat, then as the body of wall objects. In this series it moves into three dimensions - spiraling, tilting, reaching. The forms draw from Chinese Shanshui(landscape ink) painting, translating the rhythms of mountains, water, and clouds into sculpture that feels at once rooted in tradition and alive in the present. 

In Eastern philosophy, growth is cyclical. It circles back, accumulates, returns to its own center for rebirth. This is how identity forms - not in a straight line, but in rings. At the core of this series is 生生不息 - life continuously generating itself, without end. A celebration of the rational order and emotion life circle and the beauty of balance.

Each piece is screen printed, painted, carved and assembled entirely by hand.

将一棵树剖开，便能看到被具象化的时间。每一道年轮都记录着一年 - 干旱或丰饶，静止或生长，一层又一层，围绕着一个从未移动的中心不断累积。Nini成长于南京，这座中国森林覆盖率较高的城市，树木遍布街道。树木投下的阴影、散发的气息，以及树皮的质感，从最初便伴随着她的成长。艺术家直接从真实的树木中提取年轮纹理，通过丝网印刷，将它们真实的质感带入作品之中。

十五年来，Nini一直围绕这一视觉母题持续创作：最初以平面的印刷形式呈现，随后发展为墙面立体作品。在这一系列中，这一母题进一步进入三维空间 - 旋转、倾斜、延伸。作品的形态汲取自中国山水画，将山、水与云的律动转译为雕塑，使其既扎根于传统，又鲜活地存在于当下。

在东方哲学中，生长是循环往复的。它回到自身，不断累积，又回归自己的中心，在循环中获得新生。身份也正是在这样的过程中形成 - 并非沿着一条直线向前，而是如年轮一般层层生成。这个系列的核心是“生生不息”：生命不断自我生成，循环不止。它是对理性秩序、情感生命循环，以及平衡之美的一种赞颂。

每一件作品均由艺术家亲手完成：丝网印刷、绘制、雕刻与组装，全部以手工进行。