{"id":24118,"date":"2023-11-04T22:14:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T02:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=24118"},"modified":"2023-11-04T22:14:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T02:14:13","slug":"observer-discover-of-su-shi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/11\/04\/observer-discover-of-su-shi\/","title":{"rendered":"Observer: Discover of Su Shi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1147\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/\u82cf\u8f7c-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/\u82cf\u8f7c-1-scaled.jpg 1147w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/\u82cf\u8f7c-1-134x300.jpg 134w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/\u82cf\u8f7c-1-459x1024.jpg 459w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/\u82cf\u8f7c-1-768x1714.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/\u82cf\u8f7c-1-688x1536.jpg 688w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/\u82cf\u8f7c-1-918x2048.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1147px) 100vw, 1147px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a personal piece work that I created for poet Su Shi ((1037\u20131101 CE), undoubtedly, is the one of the few poets that I can find \u201cnatural.\u201d By saying natural, I mean he is authentic, free from bias and hardships. He faced adversities of course, not only faced them, but became a theme of his life. Despite his remarkable attainments in the aspects of literature and poetry, Su Shi is known as \u201cin a constant state of either being demoted from his official position or traveling along the path leading to demotion.\u201d Su Shi shaped his life into a masterpiece even in extreme poverty. He writes poetry as inspiration strikes, without any preferred themes, expressing genuine emotions. Rarely do I sense any deliberate or artificial elements in his poems. He enjoys cooking, sleeping, social gathering with liquor; he is not a saint, he has his moments of self-satisfaction and fear of loneliness, engaging in banter with friends\u2026 He stepped out of history with his authenticity and personality, his life is \u201cfull of life\u201d.\u00a0 I feel the connection between me and Su from Song Dynasty through his writings. I find my sense of belonging when I came to US because of him. He built the bridge of me and my culture thousands years ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a personal piece work that I created for poet Su Shi ((1037\u20131101 CE), undoubtedly, is the one of the few poets that I can find \u201cnatural.\u201d By saying natural, I mean he is authentic, free from bias and hardships. He faced adversities of course, not only faced them, but became a theme of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2269,"featured_media":23881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24121,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118\/revisions\/24121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}