This sculpture is to be sold with a certificate of authenticity issued by Asia Art Center, Taipei.

As an apprentice to the maestro, Li Jin-chuan, in 1953, Ju Ming started his sculptural career by learning traditional woodcarving of gods. In 1968, Ju Ming went north from Miaoli to follow the modern sculptor, Yuyu Yang. He accepted the baptism of modern art, gradually enriching his personal vocabulary of art.

Performed with knife and ax chopping and chiseling giant pieces of wood, marking Taichi visualized and artistic, and perfectly presenting Chinese philosophers are particular about the natural esthetics expressing the union of the universe and human beings. Ju Ming gained recognition worldwide by the Taichi series, and it is also the same theme, "Taichi" that won the hearts of the market. This lot, Taichi work is an odd wood being carved in the shape of a Taichi fighter. Ju Ming created it by using the quality of primitive material to add the unique carving technique, and makes itself to be whole just like nature itself. It represents Ju Ming's concept toward esthetics by its simplicity and harmonization.