RuChu means As the Beginning.

What RUCHU means?

“I-Ching is a Book of Survival!”

 RuChu means “如初” in Chinese. It means “as the beginning”.

Now, when we say the top search Keywords is the insight of the general public’s subconsciousness. This work is questioning the beginning of our Chinese culture’s subconsciousness or DNA through the frequency of letters that show up in the full text of I-Ching (i.e. Book of Changes).

The Pattern of our subconsciousness !

RuChu (2020) is a digital artwork (27min) that displays the full text of the I-Ching as the visual base. Then by means of the frequency of the repeated words, I want to study how the hidden pattern of the Chinese classic relates to the origin of our culture.

I-Ching has in total 4152 Chinese characters. A cursor will run from top left to bottom right. When the cursor hits any word/ or phrase that frequently repeating itself in the whole text, the same word/ or phrase (All) will translate into English and speak in English by the computer. For example, “无咎” will become “NO REGRET”, “吉” will become “GOOD”, “凶” will become “BAD”…etc. The cursor will loop the whole text again and again likes a curse. It’s like a hypnosis with the I-Ching’s pattern analysis.