Ch'an Mind, Zen Mind Series

This month's exhibit at The Photomedia Center is a wonderful complement to the postings on meditation and contemplativeness that have been posted here lately. The artist is Jing Zhou, an artist born and raised in Chongqing, China who now teaches art at Monmouth University in New Jersey.

Here's how the site describes her work:

"Jing Zhou creates visual dialogues between eternity and transience, oneness and variety, existence and emptiness. As a Chinese artist living in the western world, she utilizes her comprehensive understanding of Chinese philosophies (the prudent and contrary-minded Taoist beliefs, the attached-to-the-earth reality of Confucianism, and the sudden enlightenment and intuitive insights of Zen) delicately balanced with western art, literature, spirituality, and philosophies to describe what is the true nature of beauty and life."

I have to be frank...I'm not smart enough to really understand exactly what all that means (as many of my friends know, I don't get artists' statements. They read like geometry theorems to me, which has got to be more a sign of my stupidity than their writing abilities). But hey, I like the work nonetheless. So check it out...the direct link to the exhibit is here.