Artist Liu Po-Chun has named this series after images of Vajrasattva, alluding to Wuxia, or stories of martial arts, along with other genres like mythology and science fiction movies. The strength, prowess, and invincibility of these contours resemble the Buddhist Vajrasattva and the state of a powerful completion.
The forms of Non-Vajrasattva adopt the bodybuilder-esque contours imagined from Buddhist tradition, and are rendered in many reproductions. There are a total of sixteen pieces, each standing three meters tall: eight with female bodies, and eight with male bodies. The figures are built with two pieces of steel lines wedged together to form the contour of Vajrasattva. Instead of describing them as hollow forms, it would be more apt to describe them as the defining or framing of a space that gives the borderline a meaning in the reality.
Non-Vajrasattva does not represent the known form of Vajrasattva, but rather a paradox or ambiguity between true and false.
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