EXHIBITED:
Hsiao Chin Solo Exhibition , Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, June 3-25, 2006

ILLUSTRATED:
Hsiao Chin (exhibition catalogue), Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, 2006
This painting is to be sold with a certificate of authenticity issued by Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei.

The "Wisdom Heart" series Hsiao has cultivated over the past decade emphasizes the exploration of "love" and feelings, a kind of selfless "great love" that fulfills the infinite greater self. "Wisdom Heart" features the outline of a heart leaning on one side through bold, direct, and simple strokes. The deep blue heart embraces purple, green, sky blue and white stars, delivering a message about inclusiveness, love, and infinite energy. The warm heart harbors a small cosmos. The strokes delineate a series of planets with planes and dots. Such a lively and bustling scene seems to have heated up the outer space. More fine dots were interlaced to be various nets evenly woven into the deep blue world. The blank that surrounds the heart and the orange red background inject warmth into the blue heart, which clearly demonstrates the all-inclusive spirit and the artist's profound affection for life.

The artist built his personal perspective from Daoist thinking, seeing it as his unique fertile soil for artistic creation. Topics about "outer space," "inner cosmos," "lost civilization" and "extraterrestrial culture" are all blended into his abstract works. Appreciating Wisdom Heart, one stands still as a Buddha in front of the vast cosmos. The painting seems to capture the breaths from heaven to earth, the spirits of all things. It is warm and gentle but is also as hard as a rock. Between toughness and softness, it is the mysterious charm that has traveled through time and space again and again.