Fate Lines
Leaf Palm — Earth Art
The hand writes the earth
EN: Land-art tracing of the artist’s personal palm-line glyph, citing Heidegger’s idea of “dwelling poetically.”
EN:
Leaf Palm is a site-specific earth drawing that extends my research on palmistry and destiny into the landscape. I first traced my own palm lines, turned them into a calligraphic figure, and vectorized it as a personal proto-character — a sign of my life path. Here, I translate that glyph into a land-art gesture by arranging fallen leaves on grass, scaling an intimate line from the body to the earth.
The work explicitly references Martin Heidegger’s statement: “Poetically man dwells on this earth.” (Heidegger, “…dichterisch wohnet der Mensch…”, 1951). For me, this is not an abstract claim but a practice — dwelling becomes an act of composition. The piece frames everyday life itself as an artistic medium, where even a simple hand sign can become a cartography of presence. Its ephemerality is part of the work: it appears, it may vanish, yet the act of making becomes a way of inhabiting the world.
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