Coal & Ash Drawings
Bird in Flight – Cigar Ash Drawing
Bird in Flight (2024)
Cigar ash on xuan paper.single breath scatters ash into flight. This work turns a rebellious gesture — drawing with cigar ash — into an invocation of freedom.
EN:This work is made entirely with cigar ash — a material that carries for me a deep personal charge. I first began smoking cigars in my early twenties, fascinated by the ritual and by the figures who seemed to embody defiance, like Che Guevara. To draw with ash is to transform an act often seen as rebellious or excessive into a mark of creation.
The bird is an avatar of my subconscious: every time I use cigar ash, I find myself tracing forms connected to adolescent impulses — the urge to do something great, to refuse the quiet obedience often expected of women, to claim a freedom that is both bodily and spiritual.
In this photograph, the moment of creation is frozen: ash explodes and falls, the bird takes shape, wings outstretched, caught between appearance and disappearance. The drawing is not just an image but a residue of performance — the gesture, the breath, the risk that the ash could scatter away before fixing — all are part of the work.
CN:
这幅作品完全用雪茄烟灰绘制，对我来说，这种材料承载了极强的个人意味。我二十岁出头开始第一次点燃雪茄，被这种仪式感吸引，也被像切·格瓦拉这样象征叛逆的人物打动。用雪茄灰作画，将一种常被视为叛逆或放纵的行为转化为创作的笔迹。
飞鸟是我潜意识的化身：每次用雪茄灰，我画出的形象都和青春期的隐秘冲动有关——渴望成就某种伟大，渴望拒绝女性“乖巧”的规训，渴望身体与精神的彻底自由。
这张照片定格了创作的瞬间：灰烬在空气中炸裂、落下，鸟的形象在出现与消失之间被捕捉。作品不仅是一个画面，更是一次表演的残留——手势、呼吸、灰烬随时可能散去的风险，都成为作品的一部分。