Project

Something in the Air （有一团神气）

This artwork is an inflatable model of a stone, engraved with the Tibetan words བསམ་བློའི་མཐོ་ཚད་ཀུན་གྱི་མཆོག or“Spirit Above All.”It has been magnified one million times.The original stone was specially produced by a local Marnyi stone artisan for the “SpiritAbove All”series, for which Zhao carved the phrase onto many rocks of different sizes.Using Marnyi stones as inspiration, the artist has now created his newest artwork, Something in the Air, a “huge but hollow” inflatable Marnyi stone. Perched between sky and sea the air inside seems to be charged with acertain energy.