The "compass" representing "ancient Chinese geography-astronomy wisdom" is combined with a "mechanical system" representing "modern industrial growth" creates good visual tension in the piece, ...

Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

"History is such an entity: it slumbers in darkness until an observer's perspective, like a beam of light, illuminates it.