Paint when inspired, with any brush.
Naturally, different brushes yield different effects and sensations. A single stroke can give rise to countless others; one may start with an ink mass, paint wet-on-wet, work with a dry brush, or splatter ink and color freely.
At its core lies the traditional techniques of Chinese painting, where the flow of the heart springs from the natural order. Methods are not fixed; they emerge freely, guided entirely by the present moment, following the momentum as it unfolds. Texture strokes exist but are used occasionally, no longer dominant. Sometimes, the paper is crinkled before painting or manipulated during creation—using wrinkles as texture, where water, color, and varying degrees of wetness cause the raw xuan paper to contract naturally, forming organic creases. This becomes a natural texture and an adaptive technique.
Layering, reassembling, overlapping, yielding space, echoing rhythms, light and heavy, fast and slow—all follow the guiding philosophy of traditional Chinese painting. The use of brush, color, ink, water, and the texture of raw xuan paper, the composition's breathing space, the interplay of warm and cool, seepage and diffusion—all adhere to the millennia-old bloodline and philosophy of Chinese painting.
Blank space is breath; wrinkles are spirit.
Using contemporary thinking to express the ancient interplay of yin and yang, opening and closing—it is a collaborative performance with paper, ink, and watercolor, a natural unfolding.