Design Description

“Fire is characterised by flaming upward.” By extension, it signifies warmth, brightness, and upward rising, like the blazing sun at midday in summer. Among the five elements, the heart pertains to fire; like a monarch ruling over all, it governs the bright spirit, and the blood and vessels, presides over life activities and mental consciousness, and warms and promotes the circulation of qi and blood throughout the body.

Suwen (Plain Questions), chapter Yinyang Yingxiang Dalun (Great Treatise on the Correspondences of Yin and Yang), states: “The south generates heat; heat generates fire; fire generates bitterness; bitterness generates the heart; the heart generates blood; blood generates the spleen; the heart governs the tongue.” The heart corresponds to fire in the five elements, its colour is red, and it is the monarch organ, governing mental, conscious, and cognitive activities, symbolising ardour and vitality.

Drawing on this imagery, the sculpture captures the moment of flame rising and leaping in a crimson streamlined form, condensing the formless into tangible structure. Though the overall form is static, it conveys motion and tension, as if the blazing flame, after bursting forth, gradually settles into stillness.