So throw your diamonds in the sky, we'll stay gold forever.
Nor Cal Pride. Sacred City.
My name is Jacob, but you have to call me Dragon.
Explore the depths of my brain, for this is what I see.
Xu Bing, A Book From the Sky, 1987. Installation at Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1991. Moveable-type prints and books.
Xu trained as a printmaker in Beijing. A Book From the Sky, with its invented Chinese woodblock characters, may be a stinging critique of the meaninglessness of contemporary political language.
