Zheng Lu Water in Dropping – Dance, 2014 Stainless steel H: 290 cm, l: 190 cm, w: 110 cm Ed. 1/4 Zheng Lu appropriates a poem, 玩止水 (“Playing with Water”), composed by Pai Chu-I (Bai Juyi), a renowned poet of the Tang Dynasty as the basis of the textual component in this series. Water is an essential element whose significance is unquestionable in human experience. Embedded within the sculptural volume, there lies the chosen poem that speaks of a symbolic voyage of nature and mobility. Water in Dripping continues the use, the meaning and emotional value of text and visual whose static and dynamic existence and emptiness recur in most of his artworks.