Molecular Language

Language is communication between two entities of consciousness

Phonetic language is built from sound, alphabets and then assigned a meaning. Visual language is built from a picture, and then assigned a sound. In the human body, there is a crystalline language which carries information in the blood, and occupy space in the geometric forms.

Finally there is a molecular language which is the blueprint of a collective consciousness to distinguish itself from other groups. It is what makes Chinese, Chinese. Molecular language originates in the creative consciousness and manifests itself in a phoentic language or a visual language. Being Chinese, I have been interested in the deeper meaning of the Chinese written language since I was a child. The Chinese language has a very sohpisticated system of abstraction, beginning with concrete images and combining them to form abstract meanings. Other forms of hierographs such as the Summerian language were simple signs with linear meanings.

The Chinese written language has evolved into complex units which can denote specific meanings and imply broad connotations. The invention of the brush took the Chinese written language to another level of being able to express poetic resonance and philosphical implications in one single character. My fascination with the Chinese written langauge began with a simple curiosity. *How did it begin? It was supposed to have been invented by a minister from the court of the Yellow Emperor. How did he invent such a complex language that could precipitate the medical text, The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classics? From there my research and imagination took me to a conclusion that there existed an original form of the Chinese written language which predated the bronze script from Shang Dynasty, 1100 B.C. and the bone script from earlier neolithic times, 3000 B.C. I called the original form, Molecular Language.

My next step was to identify the presence of molecular language in contemporary Chinese written words. There exists a belief that the Chinese written language did not change over time. The expression of the written word changed with the different styles of writing. It goes from a formal style to a free for all artistic grass style. There was an elegant form called the Thin Gold style created by an emperor in Sung Dynasty. What I searched for was to lift the veil of all the styles and went to the structure of the character itself and visualized how it would look like without being written by a brush, or carved by a knife. I saw patterns of energy contained within a square. The square represents three dimensional space holding tmeaning in a time capsule. The character Return is simply written as a square within a square. It does not have to stop at two squares. The interior squares can go on forever reaching infinite inner space, or it can be seen as inner space expanding to infinite outer space. That was my beginning. Now I have decoded and rewritten over one hundred Chinese characters in molecular form. Being a painter, I painted these molecular forms and the results are quite astounding. They can be used for meditation and contemplation. My goal is that it will convey a universal meaning that a person does not have to know Chinese and still be inspired by signals communicated through these paintings.