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The difference of the meaning of life depends on religion, culture, values and personal experience. About death, there are varies opinions among people, but it is lack of persuasion for humankind to define death. The research probing into the life meaning and attitude by mainstream thinkers of oriental culture, for example, Confucius, Zhuanzi and ancient Chinese poet, also explore the concept of death by the ideology of ancient Egyptian mythology, Christianity, Buddhism and Islam. The issue of life and death is extensive, yet there is a notion that explain the phenomenon of life and death from combination and deconstruction. It is bound to go through countless elements of people, events and substances in the process of life, while these are the keys of being a human. People would make a choice when they were experiencing several incidents. Besides, the status of human is not fixed when it keeps absorbing necessity and excluding the useless, and would have numberless possibilities in the future as well. Combination and deconstruction is not only for research the process of human but also reinterpret the meaning of life and death. The artworks appearing different patterns of life and death by combining ink-mixed media, using the performance of arrangement, contradistinction and combination, and observing individual and group life phenomena. It is hard to define the meaning of life and death.Therefore, the research is based on the discussion of theories. Moreover, the ink-mixed artworks represent the feature of life which is illusional and elusive. The artworks also interpret the diversity of life.
Keyword : life, death, ink, mixed media
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