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# Project Description Shepherd of Nothingness ｜牧无 Heimen Liang Summary Final work Heimen Liang is a Chinese artist working across painting, sculpture, and interactive installation. She uses traditional materials such as mineral pigments to explore the relationship between personal and collective memory, reconstructing forgotten moments through objects. In recent works, viewers offer “memory objects” to sheep figures, triggering light and movement in a quiet ritual of return. Heimen Liang is a Chinese artist working across painting, sculpture, and interactive instal... College Central Saint Martins Course BA (Hons) Fine Art Graduation year 2025 Shepherd of Nothingness is an interactive installation exploring memory, loss, and dream retrieval. It weaves together four pigment paintings, a red-thread-bound sheep sculpture, and a coin-operated mechanical box to form a poetic narrative space. The sheep walk silently through imagined landscapes, echoing a search for forgotten fragments of the past. At the core stands a stack of handmade sheep connected by hand-braided red threads—an allusion to destiny and memory. Viewers are invited to bring magnetic clay objects (representing lost childhood belongings) close to the paintings, triggering soft lights behind the panels. Through the act of activation, memory flickers into presence. The work explores how individual nostalgia may become collective, and how lost pieces of identity can be slowly stitched back together through tenderness, ritual, and art. Final work Research and process Share this project Shepherd of Nothingness is an interactive installation exploring memory, loss, and dream retrieval. It weaves together four pigment paintings, a red-thread-bound sheep sculpture, and a coin-operated mechanical box to form a poetic na... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Identity Materiality Painting Interaction Sculpture
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