My Name as a Work of Art

(Language Game)

作为艺术的我的名字

（语言游戏）

The Meaning of the Meaningless and the Meaninglessness of the Meaning of my Name
我名字的意义 的 意义 和 无意义

  1, Who am “I"

I am Dah Ming
a human
A Da( )-H M( )-ING

『我』是谁

我是名
一名人类
一大名人类

2, “Ming" as a word

“Ming” is my name，
it means “name”.
My name is “Name”

名（Dah Ming）is my formal name
it means “name”
My formal name is “my formal name”

By having “name" as my name, I am nameless.
The meaning of my name and the meaning itself is diluted.
I like the complexity of the meaning and the simplicity of the name.
“The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; The Named is the Mother of All Things.”

『名』作为一个字

名是我的名字
同时也是『名字』的意思
我的名字是『名』

以名字作为我的名字，我其实没有名字。
我名字的含义和含义本身被稀释了。
我喜欢其意义的复杂和名称的简单。
『无名天地之始，有名万物之母』

3, M & -ing

M is a mysterious chanting letter: it can be taken as
Man,
Meaning,
Magic,
Mystery,
Mother,
metamorphosis…etc.
Also, 迷（mí）和秘（mì）in Chinese characters.
Or it can be a "M-istake".
-ING denoting a process and a progression
— a state of becoming and constant changing.
The “ing" Gives “M" a movement and vitality.

『名』的拼写（M & ing）

M 是一个神秘的吟唱字母:
可以理解为着人(man)、
意义(meaning)、
魔法(magic)、
神秘(mystery)、
母亲(mother)、
蜕变(metamorphosis)……等等。
还有汉字的迷（mí）和秘（mì）。
也可以是一个『错误』（M-istake）
-ING表示过程和延续
—一种生成和不断变化的状态。
"ing"赋予 "M "以动感与生命力。

4, “Da" as a Word

The Chinese character 大（da）
Illustrates a person （人） with arms stretched out as far as possible, implying the meaning of big/great/large/significant…etc.
Da,
means YES in Russian,
It’s the first sound a child makes,
It is primitive,
Is zero,
It also means “new beginning"
It embodies both everything and nothing.
A mix of affirmation and negation.

『大』（Da）作为一个字

“大”字描绘了一个人双手尽力张开的样子，
Da，
俄语中意为YES，
孩童发出的第一个声音，
是原始，
是零，
也是新生
既代表一切又什么都不是。
一个混杂了肯定和否定的集合。

5，Da+H

By adding H after Da
—a (H)uman touch,
I therefore making a statement of “affirmation"
—— a presumptuous yet authentic gesture:
Say YES to all processes.
Say YES to love and desire.
Say YES to life.

FUCK nothingness.
Say yes to this strange and dazzling world!
To embrace,
To love,
To feel,
Everything.
As a human being,
who might only live once.

Like,
Duchamp said,
Eros, C’est la Vie

Da+H

在Da之后加入H
（人性的太人性的接触）
我做出一份『肯定』宣言：
（矫情而又真诚的姿态）

对一切过程说是。
对爱欲说是。
对生命说是。

去他妈的虚无。
对这光怪陆离的世界说是！
去拥抱去爱去感受，
我可能唯一一次的，
作为人的，
一切。
就像，
杜尚所说，
爱欲即人生。

6， Dah+Ming

I am Dah Ming
a human
A Da( )-H u M(an )-ING

我是名
一名人类
一大名人类