Seated Ancestors
Yan Di, Huang Di, Chi You and their companions — figure studies from the Form System, finished in gold.
- Year
- 2024 – 2026
- Status
- Edition · In development
- Form
- Sculpture
- Materials
- Gold-finished figure studies; bronze casting on commission
- Dimensions
- Studies c. 12–18 cm; cast editions from 40 cm; monumental on commission
The work
Yan Di is the common ancestor. The form is symmetrical — dignity, warmth and divinity held together — and the colour is the colour of earth; the clay keeps its hand marks. The attributes are his: the straw cape, the herb-whip of Shennong, the golden crow, the eight trigrams, the square cauldron.
The seated figures are the atelier's most direct route to monumental work: the same form, cast in bronze at four or six metres, becomes a threshold guardian for a destination.
Rendering
RenderingCultural source
Shanhai Jing and the ancestral genealogies of Yan Di, Huang Di and Chi You.
The artist's transformation
Ancestral figures without borrowed temple iconography — a contemporary sculptural language that still reads as ancient.
Making
Clay → scan → studies → bronze on commission. Renderings on this page are labelled as such.
Scale & variation
Desk study; plinth bronze; monumental threshold figure.
Placement
Thresholds, courtyards, cultural destinations, corporate headquarters.
Certificate & provenance
Every completed commission is delivered with a certificate of authenticity, a unique work ID, a cultural source note and a making record, and is entered into the atelier's private provenance archive.
Commission
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