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Virtue is staged through gesture
Hands, posture, and distance make the moral argument visible before the viewer reaches the inscription.
The Admonitions Scroll
A quiet digital exhibition for Gu Kaizhi's legendary handscroll, rebuilt as ten visual chapters with curatorial notes and tactile motion.
10
surviving scenes
1,600+
years of memory
1
single moral thread
A digital scroll in ten scenes
Each preserved fragment is treated as a chapter, carrying a moral argument through figure, gesture, landscape, and inscription.
Horizontal scroll
Moral architecture in motion
The scroll moves from beauty to conduct, from private speech to public counsel. The interface keeps those shifts visible as a spatial rhythm rather than a database list.
02
Loyalty appears as movement
The bear scene turns a courtly admonition into a moment of physical commitment and risk.
03
Landscape becomes ethical time
Mountains, animals, sun, and moon frame the warning that fullness and decline are bound together.
04
Speech carries consequence
The domestic scenes show counsel, estrangement, restraint, and harmony as intimate spatial arrangements.
05
The historian closes the loop
The final official records and instructs, turning image and text into a durable public memory.
Study wall
A direct wall view for comparing composition, inscription, and narrative tension across all preserved scenes.