Lichtwanderung

Exhibiting

Walter Yu

LICHTWANDERUNG (LIGHT WALK)
The Creator created the world. His first work was light. Light is malleable, just like water. It is visible and tangible, but not touchable. Light moves between strong and weak, large and small, imaginary and real. In the Buddhist’s eye, the real world is an illusion. And light is the creator of both reality and illusion.
Without light there is no color, no form, and the world is reduced to the chaos of darkness. The end of physical life is the brightest white light. Between the darkness and the white light and the white light is the world of dreams and illusions – our world. The illusion can be real and reality can be imaginary. The false and the real allow this phantasmagorical world to be filled with, intertwining with heaviness and lightness. A light dwells in every life, it is the form of the soul.
The body is a temple in which the soul moves. In this temple, it is peaceful or restless, lonely or fulfilled. When the temple can no longer accommodate this light, it should let it wander into the world of light. There it is free from fetters, from worries, there is no future and no past. It is a kind of interwoven presence, an experience of coming into harmony with the source of life. In this space you are I, and I am you, there is no difference. You are also the flowers, the trees, the bees, the butterflies, and the fish, you are the mountains, the rivers, the sun, the moon, and the stars. In space, you are not only a drop of water, but the whole ocean, you are not only a meteorite but the whole universe. Just as the Taiji arises from the Wuji, the small is hidden in the big, and the big is seen in the small.
Walter Yu’s works have a meditative or spiritual peace of emptiness. In space, the light of the soul wanders freely. There is no goal, no urgency, no positivity, and no negativity. Everything joins together to form a whole. It never separates and never comes together, it is in motion and in stillness, in a state of constant presence. This embodies the original state and the final state.
The concept of Chinese literati landscape painting is a spiritual journey in which the painter comes into harmony with nature, which can also be seen as a spiritual journey. The wanderer wanders through the landscape and becomes one with all beings of heaven and earth. In unity, you are an individual as tiny as a speck of dust, but also a magnificent and boundless is hidden in the big, and the big is seen in the small.
Walter Yu’s light series such as Light Mountains, Light Bridges, Light Stars, Light Spirits, and light butterflies can be seen both as the space in which the soul moves and as the appearance of the soul itself.
The artist’s works, which were created during the pandemic, remind us that even in the midst of darkness, one is always the light of hope itself. Neither arise nor perish; neither impure nor pure; neither increase nor decrease. Your soul is the unlimited light, the eternity of an infinite circle.

(Dr. Meng Schmidt-Yin)