ABSTRACT
Perhaps an exhibition of Mr. Feng artwork in Japan might give him joy, and help him fight against the illness. Seikatsu-Kobo is a cultural center funded by Setagaya City, one of Tokyo’s Special Wards, and proposes to ‘Watch, Touch, Feel, and Consider’ about life and the environment, organizing exhibitions and workshops. This chapter the four parts of the exhibition. First part focuses on the “window-flowers” in connection with the daily life of Shanbei women. Second part presents Shanbei rituals of death and the people’s vision of the other world. Third part aims to translate the sense of place of yaodong life. In fourth part visitors are invited to meet the people of Shanbei personally. Looking back, this exhibition existed in a state of permanent tension between two forces: the centripetal force toward the particular experiences of Shanbei people—the place of creation of the flowers—and the centrifugal force toward the experiences of re-creation for each visitor.
