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Thomasin,
I was not able to upload the first picture, but the barefoot professor.
Thinking and answering as an artist my immediate suggestion to the special outfit of the Australian Professor Dr. John Clark would be that; since the artist is Chinese and the professor maybe ( I don't know it) has an interest in Chinese culture and art, the artist might want to suggest this connection with the dress .?
It could also be that the artist found the dress and the bare feet to be particularly picturesque, in the tradition of "Little girls in white dress and bare feet in the garden"?
But I think that my favorite interpretation might be that when he, as you indicated, put his life into his work, he has to be naked in some sense to make love with, and understand, art. The bare feet represent the nakedness of his mind, and the black dress, the spirit of a zen buddhist.
I don't know, yet, if dead is chaos, but life is for sure, we have to find our own path in life and make sense of it.
I find that art is my red thread in life and one that I can hone my mind on.
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