Exploring language, space, and contemporary rituals through art.
Exploring language, space, and contemporary rituals through art.
This series of five paintings marks my first attempt to stabilize fragile materials such as coal dust, ash, and rust on 30×40 cm canvas. Each work draws directly from classical Chinese poetry—Du Fu’s vision of Mount Tai, Li Bai’s waterfall,…
Growing up in Jiangxi, coal was part of daily survival—fuel for cooking and warmth, a witness to the endurance and decline of my hometown. Later, I turned cigar smoking into a ritual of teenage desire and resistance, inspired by my…
This series explores the tension between creation and disappearance. Each bird is drawn with cigar ash and coal dust — materials that are both fragile and volatile. The act of drawing is performative: the ash scatters, the gesture is recorded,…