The work draws its imagery from Primordial Chaos (Hunlun Tu, 1349) by Yuan dynasty painter Zhu Derun. The distinctive circular stroke beside the inscription—once said to have provoked endless debates thereafter—has long been regarded as a manifestation of the formless origin of heaven and earth, the very genesis of the cosmos.

In this work, two robotic arms each suspend a plumb bob at their extremities. As the central structure rotates or unfolds, the pendulous lines extend like wings or gather in introspection. The trajectories traced by the plumb bobs delineate rings that, through real-time generative projection, become perceivable traces of light in space.

The program incorporates the Disturbance Storm Time (Dst) index from 1957 to the present as data to perturb the circular trajectories, infusing the work’s evolution with an element of unpredictability. The order of mechanical motion and the chaos of geomagnetic energy intertwine, confront, and resonate—forming a field of energy in which the artificial and the celestial, science and nature, intelligence and attunement, reason and vital force continuously shape one another.

(Geomagnetic data source: World Data Center for Geomagnetism, Kyoto)