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# Project Description Where False Dreams Fade Yanmeng Chen Summary Final work College Central Saint Martins Course MA Fine Art Graduation year 2025 This work explores the nature of reality and illusion through a Zen Buddhist lens. Structured as a three-part video—infant, middle age, and old age—it traces the evolution of delusion: from primal ignorance (avidyā), to the rigidity of fixed views (drsti), to the attachment to past mind (persistence of memory). Each stage reflects a different mode of entanglement with "false appearances," questioning what we take as real. Life appears monumental, yet beneath it lies emptiness, confusion, and desire—constructs that both deceive and define us. So I project the video onto a futuristic, altar-like installation that evokes the human body, at once spiritual and rational, reaching outward yet stumbling inward. Final work Share this project This work explores the nature of reality and illusion through a Zen Buddhist lens. Structured as a three-part video—infant, middle age, and old age—it traces the evolution of delusion: from primal ignorance (avidyā), to the rigidity of fixed views (drs... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Being Human Realities Identity
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