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      Ten Thousand Ways of Water

      Soft Collapse  

      Water, Elsewhere


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©2024 Jianuan Xu





Dimensions: 61.3 × 43.8 × 27.7 cm (H × W × D)   
Ink, Five acrylic panels,  Perspex display case




Ink, Acrylic panels, Wood Light Box & LED Light



Ten Thousand Ways of Water is a photography sculpture project that brings together photography and digital painting to explore water as a perceptual and imaginative medium. 

Drawing on the phenomenology of water, the work examines water as both material and metaphor, foregrounding its resistance to permanence while reflecting on the fluidity of memory, identity, and perception. Through layered acrylic sheets and fragmented imagery, the installation constructs shifting visual fields that invite viewers into a poetic, immersive experience—where perception becomes unstable, and water emerges as both material and metaphor.