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Poetry Paintings: Coal, Ash, and the Materiality of Resistance

This red earth is both material and metaphor. It comes from the soil of my childhood landscape in Jiangxi and is ground into pigment for my paintings and drawings. Working with it means literally bringing the ground into the work — the iron-rich hue recalls blood, rust, and sedimented time. Together with coal and ferric […]

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To Knot Is to Hope

This installation stages the moment a leaf lets go of its branch — a gesture that holds both loss and promise. The wire traces the leaf’s downward path, while the clay leaves are caught mid-air, frozen between life and decay. Beneath them, a mound of coal embodies the destiny of those leaves after millennia of […]

Bird Series

This was the very first bird I drew with coal dust — the beginning of what later became the Bird Series. Its form echoes the tradition of Song dynasty literati bird-and-flower painting, where the goal was not realism but the revelation of personal spirit and temperament.For me, this slightly awkward, almost absurd bird is an avatar […]