Mustard Seed Garden Manual Project 2000
3 silkscreens on rice paper, each 8 x 10

The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting (1679) is an instructional manual that catalogues various painting styles by reknowned Chinese masters up to the 17th century. The manual, which was a pedagogical tool for aspiring painters, comprises of chapters, including Book of Trees, Book of Rocks, and Book of People and Things, etc. Through a process inflected with humour, disparate images from these various chapters were collaged together to produce images that are in themselves about image-production.

1, 2 : Sound of the chessboard
3, 4 : Palace
5, 6 : Sitting on a rock as flat as a mat

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