Ryze Xu

Selected Works

Recent Work
- Cinders (MFA Exhibition)
- Cinders/Study of a Little Nightmare (in Celadon Color)
- Cinders/Centauress
- Cinders/Dream Headstone
- Cinders/ 夜の船 (Night Sail)
- Plein Soleil/Galaxies

2023
- Cinders/Grey Word
- Light, Soft Machines

2022 and before
- Overdue
- Cauldrons
- Disaster Bento
- Grass Ark
- My Last Castle




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    ©2025 Ryze Xu

    Cinders/Centauress





    Ryze Xu
    Cinders/Centauress, 2024
    Ceramics, steel, wood, linen




    Myths, fables, my body, and love,

    A horse?

    Pagodas of Northern Wei Dynasty, some sex jokes, 

    The Book of Sand, the Borgesian conundrum, a southbound train,

    Rodin’s amalgam and my nightmares,

    I’m a funnel and they travel through me 

    into some narrow void, like some early autumn day

    your glittery eyeshadow, did it really exist?

    Question like this makes me realize: they have all left me. & I wonder 

    this calligrapher who poured his everything

    on to paper, to grieve – It all seemed 

    pointless: what did he really write

    besides beauty and fame?

    Hurry, run, this new fable of me

    “as God must see you–

    the fiction of Time destroyed,

    free from love, from me.”