"Taichi Arch"was originally evolved from "Taichi Pushing Hands" The artist said:"There are distances between two objects in the" Pushing Hands"from the past, now, I connected those too hands, once they are connected, the flow of chi, and movements of muscles are connected and alive, become a single object, and transformed to an arch."

Ju Ming's "Taichi Series"can be broadly divided into two categories: those of individuals demonstrating their skills and postures, and those that examine the contradictory relationship between counter forces. Taichi involves both activity and quietude, rigidity and fluidity, perception and reality, urgency as well as other evolving elements in dialectic philosophy. To understand the mystery within, is to fathom the wonders of the universe. Art historian Michael Sullivan has commented: "Taichi is also a form of ritual combat in which two figures actively oppose each other. In 'Taichi Boxing'the participant moves so that he (more rarely she) extends beyond himself. Know your enemy as well as yourself, wrote the ancient military strategist Sun Zi, and you will be invincible." ①



① Michael Sullivan, The Art of Ju Ming, Ju Ming Taichi Sculptures, (an exhibition catalogue for Ju Ming at South Bank Centre, London, Aug. 13 to Sept. 13, 1991), Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 4