Waiting for a Rain

The inspiration of this artwork comes from a poetic, picturesque, and rainy ancient city in the south. Qiu Zhijie used hydrophobic materials to write poems on stone slabs, and when a rain comes, the poems on the stone slabs will emerge. The word “waiting” shows Chinese people's understanding of the relationship between time and beauty. The work uses timed artificial mist to simulate the effect of rain. Through the spray every 15 minutes, the poems gradually appear and disappear, and interpret the cycle of time, “waiting for a rain”with the audience together.