“I hope the citizens who pass by this statue could observe the beauty of concise curves in different views. The abstract model leaves imagination space for the citizens. Staying in this area could remind the bay so as to arouse wonderful beauty experience.” — Artist Hu Tung-min
“We cannot see the moon in the old times while the moon shines also in the old times.” More than one thousand years ago, Li Bai expressed the philosophy of time and space through the relationship between the moon and human beings. The ancients and moon in the old times, human beings and the moon nowadays, though human beings are different, the moon remains the same. Within the time and space shift in the past, nowadays and in the future, there is always a time prodigal who “falls behind” on the time path. It links the history matrix with the future imagination.
The sea in front of One Shenzhen Bay is also a time prodigal. Since the end of the 1970s, Shenzhen has initiated sea reclamation plan, reclaimed the seacoast into the urban strategic land and managed to build the super headquarter base. The sea has testified the development of Shenzhen Bay Wetland, inherited the dream of becoming global and witnessed the constructions of skyscrapers here. After decades, the time prodigal together with One Shenzhen Bay gather the world talents and top 500 enterprise headquarters and create the infinite future in the name of super luxury mansion.
The artwork site selection- in the east of Shenzhen Bay T7 office building lobby entrance square, faces to the sea and sunshine. Mingzhu Greenland is just across the sea. It is also close to the few remained wetlands after reclamation such as Neihuwan Park and Mangrove Park. It baths in the sunshine of sunup and sunset, sea wind and sea tides.
Therefore, “Leading Off” becomes the spokesman of this area. As the time prodigal, it links the history matrix of Shenzhen Bay land with the city future of Shenzhen Bay super CBD…
LEADING OFF
The ribbon-style concise curves look like the sea ripples and link to the bay. Its abstract kinetic mode reminds us not to forget the past and have no fear for the future.
