Weaving Time: A Twelve-Year Journey

This story began with ink on paper in 2013, and found its completion through weaving in 2025. Below is the journey of this piece, in English and my native Chinese.

“Woven Ink”

What does twelve years signify? To the vast universe, it is but a fleeting moment; to an individual, it can be an entire chapter of life.

This piece traces its origins back to 2013, shortly after I moved from Shanghai to Seattle. Consumed by homesickness, I turned to ink and brush, finding solace in the traditional landscapes of Chinese culture. Later, I spent six years at an art academy studying Western classical drawing and painting, while those early ink washes remained tucked away in a drawer.

In 2025, a paper-weaving workshop sparked the inspiration for this work. I cut my original landscape paintings into strips and rewove them, guided entirely by intuition. This process mirrors my experience as an immigrant in America—the act of deconstructing and rebuilding one's spiritual world within a new culture.

There is no political subtext here; it is simply a record of my personal journey. To me, that is the very essence of art.

编织时光：十二年的旅程

十二年的时间意味着什么？对浩瀚宇宙或许是瞬间，对个人而言或许是一整段人生。

这幅作品起始于2013年，我从中国上海搬来美国西雅图不久。思乡心切，就拿起笔墨画起中国山水画，心神优游在中国古典文化的意境中。后来我又去美术学院学习西方古典素描和绘画，花了六年时间。这当初的水墨画就一直保存在抽屉中。2025年，我偶然参加一个纸质编制的活动，激发了我这张作品的想法—— 我把当初的山水画切成长条，重新编制，编制的过程也是凭借直觉。这如同我在美国作为移民的感受—— 在新的文化里重新构建自己的精神世界。

这幅作品不包含政治意味，只是关于我个人体验的记录。对我来说，这就是艺术的本质。