Bingyi's "The Eternal Pond of the Universe," now on view just inside the Prescott Street entrance of the Harvard Art Museums.
During an extended stay in New England in the winter of 2021–22, painter and Chinese art scholar Bingyi visited Walden Pond every day, photographing incremental changes in the environment and collecting local plants like grasses and ferns.
While preparing this composition, she was inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s writings and also drew on her extensive knowledge of Song dynasty monumental landscape painting.
December 11, 2025
