Coal & Ash Drawings
Bird in Flight – Time’s Trace
A drawing that continues to change, even after completion — time as collaborator.
CN: 一幅即使完成后仍在变化的画——时间是作品的合作者。
This is the same bird from Bird in Flight – Moment of Creation, but transformed by time. The fixative could not stop the ash from slowly detaching; what remains is a palimpsest, a faint shadow of the original gesture.
This slow erasure is intentional: I allow the work to keep living, to breathe and to decay. It turns the drawing into a collaboration with entropy — a performance stretched over months, where gravity, air, and dust become co-authors.
Conceptually, it speaks about freedom and memory. The bird, once fierce, now hovers as a ghost: still flying, but in a quieter register, as if memory itself has grown fragile. The work insists that disappearance is part of its meaning: art is not only about fixing a moment, but about acknowledging its loss.
CN:
这是前作《飞鸟——创造的瞬间》的同一只鸟，但已被时间改变。定画液无法阻止烟灰的慢慢脱落，如今只留下模糊的影子，像一本被反复覆盖的手稿。
这种缓慢的消逝是刻意的：我让作品继续“活下去”，让它呼吸、腐蚀、消散。它变成了与熵的合作——一场持续数月的表演，重力、空气与灰尘共同成为作者。
在观念上，它谈论自由与记忆。曾经强烈的飞鸟，如今化为幽灵：仍在飞翔，却更为安静，好像记忆本身也变得脆弱。作品强调“消失”是意义的一部分：艺术不只是凝固瞬间，更是承认它终将失去。