Legend has it that hundreds of millions of years ago, this mountain was once submerged beneath an ancient ocean.

Like fragments of memory embedded within the body of the Earth, the karst landscape was formed through the long dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone and dolomite under the persistent flow of water. It naturally records the Earth’s tectonic movements, continental shifts, and climatic changes over hundreds of millions of years, while preserving traces of prehistoric fossils, cave rituals, and myths of the underground world. As one of the geological forms with the greatest "temporal depth," it stands as both a natural archive and a flowing geological memory.

Inspired by this generative geological flow, the artist extends it into a rethinking of "flow" in traditional Chinese painting. The creation unfolds between the virtual and the real, between the ancient ocean and the contemporary land. Brushstrokes become rhythm, breath, and the embodiment of time: a spatial and temporal continuum that echoes the living movement of the landscape itself. Through light, algorithm, and memory, the strata begin to flow again, revealing the complex intertextual relationship between human narrative and natural history.

Using advanced digital technology, the artist transforms drone-captured 3D scans of the mountain into digital models, repositioning them beneath a simulated deep sea. Through high-lumen projection mapping, the vanished water currents reappear on the surface of the mountain. These data, algorithmically re-rendered and processed, are projected as three-dimensional imagery precisely hovering over the textures of the rock, creating flowing visual forms reminiscent of traditional Chinese landscape painting, phantoms seemingly growing upon an ancient crust. In this luminous field, the geological time of the Earth, the algorithmic time of technology, and the perceptual time of human beings overlap, forming a new "earthly experience."

Meanwhile, the digital sounds derived from water-flow data intertwine with the mechanical hum of computing devices, juxtaposing the energetic currents of nature and machine into a continuous resonant field. This surrounding sound field enhances the immersive experience of the space.

As traces of light extend along the mountain’s body, people follow the light as if witnessing a continuous dialogue between the present and the time of millions of years ago.

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