The Initial Language of No-Time Consciousness

This volume follows forty years of Stone Chun Shi’s artistic practice and the emergence of STONECUBE, a visual language concerned with perception, structure, rhythm and consciousness. Based on his 2026 exhibition at Memor Museum in New York, it brings together paintings, archival materials, photographs, interviews and critical essays.

Repeated units, fragmentation and reconstruction connect each detail to the larger image. Reinterpretations of historical works—including Along the River During the Qingming Festival, A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains and Hokusai’s Great Wave—bring cultural memory into the present. The book also considers Stone’s work across music and moving images, asking how an evolving artistic language can change our experience of time and consciousness.