JU MING

From the late 1980s, Ju Ming gradually moved his art practice from the Taichi Series to the Living World Series to address wider subjects. Living World Series (Lot 2285) is a wood sculpture of a lady with a hair bun in a pink dress. It depicts a unique character and expression of an individual found in the public realm, while these guileless cuts represent the tenacity of life. Ju Ming's early concern for the nativism, strong pursuit of the taichi spirit and the return to the motif of the living world manifest the artist's sincere observation on life. Ju's teacher Yang Yu-Yu once commented as such, "Ju Ming's practice has always been evolving with the truthful feelings for life is a variation of movement."