{"product_id":"garden-of-mirrored-flowers","title":"Garden of Mirrored Flowers","description":"Three Principles of Garden of Mirrored Flowers:  \u003cbr\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“The sensations that visitors to the theme park will experience\u003cbr\u003eare precisely those that classical Chinese literature has always\u003cbr\u003ewanted to convey: life as a bewildering maze.\u003cbr\u003eAs such, we can better comprehend one of the key principles\u003cbr\u003efor the construction of the theme park: bewilder—the soul— \u003cbr\u003eintensely.” \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e2\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“In the process of construction, I began to increasingly feel that\u003cbr\u003ethe process should be an intermittent walk from one area to the next,\u003cbr\u003elike how a moving essay is extracted from a grand narrative—this is\u003cbr\u003etherefore the second principle of designing gardens: the form may\u003cbr\u003edisperse but not the spirit.” \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Just like the flower fairies, we have all fallen to earth, having\u003cbr\u003elost our inner equilibrium. As such, no one would turn down the\u003cbr\u003eopportunity to enjoy the spiritual release and pleasure that this kind\u003cbr\u003eof theme park can offer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eGarden of Mirrored Flowers\u003ci\u003e is hence a psychodrama of an even\u003cbr\u003ehigher class.\u003cbr\u003eTherefore, we should be able to understand the third principle\u003cbr\u003efor the construction of the park easily: the world's experiential\u003cbr\u003ecenter.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFang's novel tells the story of a man in the process of designing a theme park, called \u003ci\u003eGarden of Mirrored Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e, and is an adaptation and transformation of the classical Chinese novel \u003ci\u003eJin Hua Yuan\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eFlowers in the Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e, from the Qing Dynasty. Beginning as a pictorial journey through myriad advertisements and the way they allow for many different entries into reality, Fang depicts parallels between the park's actual construction and how it has been imagined, or how it has evolved out of history. For \u003ci\u003eGarden of Mirrored Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e is less the vision of one author (Fang) and more the result of reality writing itself through this author; that is, a script, or documentary, of life. “It's a book,” Fang states, “written by a ghost writer. Me? Just a traveler floating within the wave of globalization.” Culminating with the park's opening ceremony, Fang creates a space where history seems to have been completely consumed and absorbed by contemporary social movements. It is both a labyrinth to get lost in and a pavilion made of reflective glass. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHu Fang is a novelist, art critic, and the co-founder and artistic director of Vitamin Creative Space, a project and gallery space dedicated to contemporary art exploration and searching for an independent working mode, specifically geared to the contemporary Chinese context. He lives and works in Beijing and Guangzhou.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50951598244128,"sku":"9781934105153","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781934105153.jpg?v=1763639945","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/garden-of-mirrored-flowers","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}