作者：杨长兵 编辑：冯仍 校对：冯仍
2026年4月4日下午2点，自由雕塑公园再次成为见证历史的现场——“仰望星空·高智晟”雕塑正式落成。
这不仅是一场艺术仪式，更是一场对暴政的公开指认。
出席典礼的嘉宾包括美国国会及行政当局中国委员会（CECC）副幕僚长 Piero Tozzi，加州州长候选人 Che Ahn，中国著名维权律师高智晟的妻子 耿和，自由雕塑公园创办人、雕塑家 陈维明，中国民主党创党人之一 朱虞夫，美国越战老兵 Eddie Romero，中国人权执行主任 周锋锁，China Aid创办人 付希秋，中国人权联盟主席 金秀红，“六四”天安门事件受害者方政，台湾反共网红八炯，以及多位来自香港的民运人士。
他们的出现，本身就是一种立场。而这座雕塑所指向的，是一个至今仍未被回答的问题——一个人，如何能在国家机器之下，被“彻底抹去”？
高智晟，这位曾为底层民众、为宗教信仰者、为被压迫者辩护的律师，自2017年再次被强迫失踪后，至今已长达八年八个月，音讯全无。没有判决，没有程序，甚至没有一个“存在的证明”。这不是个案，这是制度。这是一个政权，对“良知”的系统性清除。
当天，数百名法轮功学员与各界人士到场。他们不是来“参加活动”，而是来证明一件事：记忆仍然存在，良知仍未屈服。
在发言中，多位嘉宾直指问题核心——中共长期以来对异见者、宗教群体及维权律师的打压，从来不是偶发事件，而是一种精密运作的统治方式。让人沉默，让人消失，让恐惧成为社会的底色。而这座雕塑，正是在打破这种沉默。它让一个被“消失”的人重新站立，让一个被掩盖的名字再次被呼喊。它不是纪念过去，而是在对抗正在发生的现实。
真正令人沉重的，并不是雕塑本身，而是它存在的原因。作为参与陈维明创作过程的一员，我亲眼见证了这件作品从无到有的诞生。但越是接近它，就越清楚——这不仅是一件艺术作品，而是一种抵抗。
在一个试图抹去记忆的体制面前，记录，本身就是反抗；
发声，本身就是行动。
他们让他消失。
而我们，让他被看见。
“Gazing at the Stars · Gao Zhisheng” Sculpture Unveiled at Liberty Sculpture Park
Author: Yang ChangbingEditor: Feng Reng. Proofreader: Feng Reng Translator:Peng Xiaomei
At 2:00 p.m. on April 4, 2026, Liberty Sculpture Park once again became a site witnessing history — the sculpture “Gazing at the Stars · Gao Zhisheng” was officially unveiled.
This is not only an artistic ceremony, but also a public identification of tyranny.
Guests attending the ceremony included Piero Tozzi, Deputy Staff Director of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC); Che Ahn, candidate for Governor of California; Geng He, wife of renowned Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng; Chen Weiming, founder of Liberty Sculpture Park and sculptor; Zhu Yufu, one of the founders of the China Democracy Party; Eddie Romero, U.S. Vietnam War veteran; Zhou Fengsuo, Executive Director of Human Rights in China; Fu Xiqiu, founder of China Aid; Jin Xiuhong, Chairwoman of the China Human Rights Alliance; Fang Zheng, victim of the June Fourth Tiananmen Incident; Taiwanese anti-communist internet influencer Ba Jiong; as well as multiple pro-democracy activists from Hong Kong.
Their presence itself is a position. And what this sculpture points to is a question that has yet to be answered — how can a person, under a state machine, be “completely erased”?
Gao Zhisheng, this lawyer who once defended grassroots citizens, religious believers, and the oppressed, has been forcibly disappeared again since 2017, and for eight years and eight months up to now, there has been no news of him. There has been no verdict, no procedure, and not even a single “proof of existence.” This is not an individual case; this is a system. This is a regime’s systematic eradication of “conscience.”
On that day, hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners and people from various sectors were present. They were not there to “attend an event,” but to prove one thing: memory still exists, and conscience has not yielded.
In the speeches, multiple guests pointed directly to the core issue — the Chinese Communist Party’s long-term suppression of dissidents, religious groups, and rights lawyers has never been an occasional occurrence, but a precisely operated method of rule. To make people silent, to make people disappear, to make fear become the background tone of society. And this sculpture is precisely breaking this silence. It allows a person who has been “disappeared” to stand again and allows a name that has been covered up to be called out once more. It is not commemorating the past but confronting a reality that is still ongoing.
What is truly heavy is not the sculpture itself, but the reason for its existence. As someone who participated in the creative process of Chen Weiming, I personally witnessed the birth of this work from nothing. But the closer one gets to it, the clearer it becomes — this is not only a work of art, but a form of resistance.
In the face of a system that attempts to erase memory, to record is, in itself, resistance.to speak out is, in itself, action.
They made him disappear.
And we make him be seen.
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