声音一震动，它其实就是一种意愿……
长时间沉浸在（帝国时代）这个项目中，就会发现里面出现的一些问题。后来我发现所有的这些问题，在一定的时间段里，可能会由它名字的震动波带来。声音一震动，它其实就是一种意愿，它会让你走向那个声音所带来的那个结果。“帝国时代”这个游戏它已经衰落了，它被一种新的东西代替了，或者是网络上更有意思的一些游戏。我觉得我那个地方也该有一个新的名字代替它，这个名字我也想了好久。有一天我发现，原来在“帝国时代”的核心，就有一个中空的园叫作“了园”，这是我以前一直想做的比较核心的部分。其实你把整个“帝国时代”最后的核心一连贯的话，它也就是“完成了”的意思，所以我就干脆用“了园”这个名字代替了“帝国时代”。
从那个中空的空间，我开始知道磁场对人真正的意义，每个人在那里都有同样的反应。在那里我发现了土地跟人的关系，再往上看，我们就发现有一种天人关系。对我们来说，我们先要找到这种人和地的关系，我们怎么能够和这个土地的力量成为一体，让它带着我们振动，你坐在那里慢慢就觉得舒服，慢慢就觉得跟土地的共振是同一个频率。所以在那块土地上，我会用自己的身体去感知，在一个地方蹲几天或者蹲很久，在不断测试中，有一种恍然大悟，原来地是有穴位的，穴位其实就隐藏在这个土地的能量中心，对应着我们的人体。
土地的穴位要是跟人的穴位对应的话，就会有同一个频率的振动。如果找到了人地之间的对应，它就是一个简版的宇宙。宇宙什么都没有，就是一个频率或是一个振动，是没有符号、回到能量的那个版本，是除了有形的现象之外的一种无形的力量，我想这应该是“了园”所要捕捉到的比较本质的一些东西。
同时，“了园”的“了“，也产生出另外一个“未了”的意思，这是一个长期的、可能永远不会完工的项目，它以一种日常的、自然生长的状态缓慢地出现，是做到哪算到哪，不计时间的日常建造。
——郑国谷, 2014
Once a sound is made through vibration, it turns into a wish…
If one indulges himself in this project (The Age of Empire) long enough, he will find the problems that have arisen from it. Later I realised, all these problems might have been brought about by the shockwaves generated from its name within a specific period of time. Once a sound is made through vibration, it turns into a wish, a wish that will lead you to the result carried by the sound. The game series Age of Empires has declined and been replaced by something new on the Internet, maybe they are more fun. I think this place should also have a new name, about which I have been thinking for a long time. One day, I discovered a hollowed garden called Liao Garden at the very core of The Age of Empire, which was an essential part of something that I wanted to build. If you link up the nuclei of the entire The Age of Empire, it will reveal its meaning of “being finished, done” [a possible meaning of the Chinese character Liao], so I substituted the name of The Age of Empire with Liao Garden.
From that hollowed space, I began to understand what do magnetic fields mean to humans, since everyone would react the same way there. I discovered the relationship between land and people in that place; looking upward, we will become aware of the relationship between the universe and men. For us, the first thing to do is to uncover the relationship between men and land. How can we fuse ourselves with the power of the land and let it resonate with us? You would feel comfortable after sitting there for a while, slowly detecting the same frequency of the bodily resonance with the land. Therefore, on that piece of land, I use my body to feel, I often crouch at the same place for a long time, sometimes even for days. In this continuous experimentation, there came a sudden enlightenment that the land possesses its own acupuncture points which are hidden in the energy core of the land, corresponding to our bodies.
If the acupuncture points correspond to the acupuncture points of the human body, then there will be a resonance of the same frequency. If we find the correspondence between men and land, then it’s a simple version of the universe. There’s nothing in the universe but a frequency or a vibration. It’s a version where symbols don’t exist and everything is returned to energy, a formless power devoid of tangible phenomenons. I guess this is something more fundamental that the Liao Garden set out to capture.
Meanwhile, the “Liao” of Liao Garden also produces another meaning of “unfinishedness”. It is a long term project that might never be completed. It slowly emerges through a daily, naturally growing state, its construction is never calculated with time and doesn’t end if it doesn’t have to.
– Zheng Guogu, 2014