Fate Lines
Leaf Palm — Earth Art
EN: Land-art tracing of the artist’s personal palm-line glyph, citing Heidegger’s idea of “dwelling poetically.”
CN: 以落叶在草地上描摹个人掌纹字形的地景装置，回应海德格尔“诗意地栖居”的观念。
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.
CN：
《叶掌》是一件特定场域的大地绘画，把我关于掌纹与命运的研究延伸到自然之中。我先描摹自己的掌纹，将其转化为毛笔书写，再矢量化成为个人的“原始字形”——象征我的生命轨迹。在这件作品里，我用落叶在草地上描出这一字形，把身体尺度的线条扩展到土地尺度。
作品直接回应海德格尔在《诗意地栖居》（1951）中的名句：“人，诗意地栖居于大地之上。”对我而言，这不是抽象的命题，而是一种行动：栖居成为一种创作。作品让日常生活本身成为媒介，一道手纹也能成为存在的地图。它的短暂性是作品的一部分：它出现、消散，而创作的行为本身就是我在世界中的栖居方式。