Kaixiang Zhang
Rockabye
ash, grass mat, reed and birch
300 ×
130 ×
51 cm
My earliest memory places me in my grandmother’s arms, walking through a market beneath a stone bridge in Wenzhou. This work captures the resonance of that moment: a boat swaying in the current, the shadow of the bridge, and the summer nights of my childhood where her lullabies put me to sleep. It serves as a vessel for the warm, tender origins of my memory and homeland.
The physical scale of the sculpture is bound to my own body, where my height determines the exact radius of its gentle curve. In dialogue with the historical wooden-joint bridges of my hometown, the entire structure is held together solely through wood joinery, mirroring the architectural memory embedded in my past.