高温瓷

　　数量：3000多只，平均10x8x5cm 一只（数量尺寸可变）

　　制作时间：2014年10月

　　这件作品是为了纪念一位未谋过面却已经过世的朋友。这是一个渴望家庭之爱，被思念侵蚀着的灵魂，他身患绝症，独自在医院面对病痛的侵袭，始终惦念不来探望他的家人，最后在日日的想念中孤独离世……

　　从朋友那儿得知他的故事，心疼地揪了起来。这个孤单脆弱的灵魂，曾身处怎样凄凉的心灵荒漠，在怎样绝望的境地游离。这世上还有多少同样孤单的灵魂，和他一样孤独的在人间穿行，找不到回家的路……我决定为他和同样无依的人们做一组作品，用我的形式为他们超度……

　　我开始徒手捏制半圆的巢穴，将我虔诚的心念，每点每滴的悲悯与爱都捏进泥土里，将带有温度的指纹、情绪、温暖、祝福都带进作品，捏成可以栖居的洁白透明的壳体。每只壳体里都放一颗麦粒，象征一个灵魂。这些巢穴就像一个个无暇的母体，承载着一粒粒孤独无依的人儿，让那些漂泊在空中无家可归的魂灵安心地回到母体，回到可以栖居的家园。

　　这些巢穴有三千多只，我以修行的方式在大半多年的时间里一点点徒手捏制，最终呈现一个美丽、宁静、圣洁的场境，无数的魂灵聚集在一起，他们平静安详，各自独自又彼此相依，仿若仪式般地祈祷此后人间没有孤独，灵魂所处都是安宁和温暖……

　　Porcerlain

　　More than 3,000 pieces, 10x8x5cm（each piece size in general）

　　Made by  Shen Min  in Oct, 2014

　　This work is in memory of a friend who has passed away but I have never met before. He was always eager for family love but still had to face the terminal illness alone in the hospital in his last time, and died without family around. His family never came.

　　I felt grieved when I heard about his story. What a lonely, despairing life! There are many others, hopeless sprits, wandering alone in this world, there is no road leads to home. I decided to make a work for those suffering souls, release them in my way.

　　I started shaping these semi-spherical nests by hand, kneading my heart, sympathy and love into clay, the clay was shaped into white and transparent shell with my fingerprint, emotion, warmth and blessing. In every shell I put a wheat seed, which symbolize a soul. These shells are like immaculate matrix, shelter or home for the lonely, the lost.

　　There are more than 3,000 pieces. I made them one by one with my bare hands in more than half year time, in a way of monastic life. At last they were placed to show a peaceful, pure and saintly scene. All the lonely souls gathered, independently but also count on each other. It is like a rite to pray that there will be no loneliness, the soul can dwell in peace and warm.