To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one’s life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
Mencius
(c. 372–289 BCE)
Artist Statement
The poster sees the repetition of a water hourglass into a circle, a cycle, an eye. In Chinese traditional wisdom, water is representative of intelligence and wisdom, flexibility, softness and pliancy. This is now seen through the eye of the multitude, in a repetition not knowing where the path leads but walking in a circle in a life’s cycle, just like an hourglass. If our eyes are the door to our souls and the road to our hearts, this design shows the irony where we may be born with the wisdom and the ability to see but follow blindly in life.
