The world is a unified entity of chaos and order. How can landscape painting convey this paradoxical unity? This is the core issue that Intrinsic Potential Landscape addresses.
The chaotic, automatic brushwork and the rationally controlled block structures stand in conflicting opposition yet engage in antagonistic cooperation. The collage process itself is an attempt to interweave and negotiate between these two forces (勢): chaos and order. Following the formless, purposeless graffiti of dots, lines, and planes of ink, I reassemble defined ink blocks. This generates visual ruptures, disjunctures, and ambiguities at the viewing boundaries between the undefined and the defined. Here, the two visual forces of chaos and order intertwine, creating a paradoxical sensation that is both abrupt and mutually coexistent. This series originates from "Discrete Islands series: In Tune with the Heart of the Mountains no.1" my inaugural collage piece from 1992. Initially, it pursued a subtly harmonious expression of ink on paper, gradually evolving into the "Discrete Islands" series. However, in 2021, my approach shifted towards seeking a sense of order within conflicting and dissonant antagonistic compositions, leading to the re-naming of this series as "Intrinsic Potential Landscape"