Discrete Islands_ Dwell Amidst The Mountain And Inhale From The Valley ( cotton )
孤山水之居山飲壑系列（棉麻布）

Before paper existed, ancient Chinese artists painted on fabric materials. In our contemporary age, where ink-on-paper techniques are so refined, I chose to face fabric again with a Primal simplicity approach. Through this practice—which started in 1998—I found an unexpected texture of ink that paper could never provide. It freed me from the 'technical bondage' of traditional literati methods, opening up a fresh and fascinating dialogue between the brush, the ink, and the material itself.
在還沒有發明紙張的遠古中國繪畫史中，布上畫是最為普遍的繪畫材料，而在紙上筆墨技術發展非常成熟的當代，以樸素的方式重新面對布類材料，又會是什麼樣的筆墨狀態呢？我從1999年開始這樣的實踐，竟然發現了不同於紙本水墨的筆墨感，這讓我從被高度技術綑綁的文人技法解放出來，重新找到筆墨與材質之間互相作用的新趣味。

Echoing Li He's Poetics
color and ink on  linen cotton
《李賀詩意》
彩墨．棉麻布
​144x47cm
1999

Dialogue Between The Mountain And The Cloud
color and ink on  linen cotton
​《山與雲的對話》
​彩墨．棉麻布
​140x75cm
1999

My Impression Of The Gobi Desert
color and ink on  linen cotton
《戈壁印象》
彩墨．棉麻布
​140x47cm
1999

Let The Mind Open
color and ink on  linen cotton
《放諸懷抱》
彩墨．棉麻布
​184x60cm
1999

Serenity
color and ink on  linen cotton
《靜》
彩墨．棉麻布
​164x60cm
1999

Fighting For Food
color and ink on  linen cotton
《爭食》
彩墨．棉麻布
​40x110cm
1999

Homage To Zhao Mengfu 2
color and ink on  linen cotton
《面對趙孟頫2》
彩墨．棉麻布
​40x120cm
1999

Echoing Xie Lingyun's Poetics
color and ink on  linen cotton
《謝靈運詩意》
彩墨．棉麻布
​57x116cm
1999

Transience of Humanity
color and ink on  linen cotton
《人海》
彩墨．棉麻布
​164x60cm
1999

Rock And Mountains In The Sea
color and ink on  linen cotton
《山頭小立》
彩墨．棉麻布
​140x47cm
1999

Let The Mind Open
color and ink on  linen cotton
《俯仰放懷抱》
彩墨．棉麻布
​184x60cm
1999

Eternity
color and ink on  linen cotton
《恆古屏風》
彩墨．棉麻布
​185x200cm
1999

Homage To Zhao Mengfu 1
color and ink on  linen cotton
《面對趙孟頫1》
彩墨．棉麻布
​40x120cm
1999

My Impression Of Guilin 2
color and ink on  linen cotton
《桂林印象 2》
彩墨．棉麻布
​75x140cm
1999

Rain and fog
color and ink on  linen cotton
《雨與霧》
彩墨．棉麻布
120x40cm
1999

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/ Critical Essays

“…her landscape pair on cotton linen… alters the materiality of rocks offer a glimpse into a new expression of dialogue and exchange. The medium of cotton linen raises the historicity of these blue green landscapes of mountains and rock formations to a new realm. This is indicative of the aforementioned effort to transform “point of view” into “point of being”. And in this cyclical process, we finally witness in her Landscapes of the consciousness series in 2005, how this subjectivized materiality of landscapes and rock forms has been liberated from the physical definition of previous landscape paintings, and has materialized its subjective self to attain a new reality.” ---Art critique by Moon Jung-hee, 2014
「 (袁慧莉) 以棉布為基礎，在其上以淡彩柔弱地表現出堅硬性質石頭之手法，可以說是改變了石頭之物質主體的存在方式，而這種改變物之主體存在方式的變化手法，我們可以以麥克盧漢(Herbert Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980)「媒體理論」的「視點」(point of view)，轉變到「在點」(point of being)一方式來說明之。在畫作中成為視點主體的石頭，由柔軟的棉布此一媒介的作用下，形成了另外一種主體，而這樣的主體並不是消逝不見，而是居存在媒介的作用、變化的過程之中。此時存在的石頭，在畫家本身與其他主體交流、溝通時會有所衝突，反而是藉此誕生出一個新的世界。」---文真姬, 2014