Bronze Age Gold from Wales
The Other Side (part)
Geng Xue created The Other Side in response to the death of a friend in a road accident. It is a dream-like landscape in which a female figure lies dead on the far side of a river. This relates to a rite in Chinese Daoist funerals when the soul of the deceased symbolically crosses a bridge to the world of the dead – a final moment of farewell. The figure of the dead woman resembles the dolls used by female patients in traditional Chinese medicine to point out to doctors where they had problems, without having to reveal their own bodies.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 39106
Measurements
Height
(cm): 13.2
Length
(cm): 36.7
Depth
(cm): 12
Height
(cm): 54
Width
(cm): 20
Depth
(cm): 18
Height
(cm): 13.7
Width
(cm): 8.7
Depth
(cm): 6.9
Height
(cm): 5
Width
(cm): 10
Depth
(cm): 6.8
Categories
Crefft | Craft Celf Gymhwysol | Applied Art Cerameg stiwdio | Studio ceramics Cerameg | Ceramics Celf Gymhwysol | Applied Art Porslen Tsieina | Chinese porcelain Porslen Dwyreiniol | East Asian porcelain Porslen | Porcelain Cerameg | Ceramics Celf Gymhwysol | Applied Art 21_CADP_Dec_22 Life and Death Figure group Tree Spirituality CADP content CADP random Active in the 21st CenturyComments are currently unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience.