Post-Marijuana, Sand Script
2013
Fung Ming Chip
Asian Art
Through his radical deconstruction and reinvention of traditional calligraphic forms, Fung Ming Chip has created more than one hundred unique script styles. The artist first writes with water on a blank sheet of paper; the characters become visible only after he applies a layer of dark ink over it. Where the water has saturated the paper, the ink is only partially absorbed, leaving enigmatic traces of characters that float on the surface of the composition. In this painting, the play of light focuses the viewer’s attention on the images as they ebb and flow in rhythmic pulsating layers of ink, emphasizing the visual experience rather than the meaning of the text. A self-taught calligrapher, Fung is the rare artist who carves his own seals and then uses them in unconventional ways to frame the abstracted calligraphic forms in his paintings. Two of his seals are on view in the adjacent display case, on the “Life of a Scholar.”
- Maker/Artist
- Fung Ming Chip
- Classification
- Work on Paper
- Formatted Medium
- Ink on paper
- Dimensions
- with cord and knobs: 105 15/16 × 51 in. (269.1 × 129.5 cm) image: 71 3/8 × 37 in. (181.3 × 94 cm) mount: 105 3/16 × 47 3/8 in. (267.2 × 120.3 cm)
- Inscribed
- 大麻之後 麻後的幸福 掙扎扭動 張向空虛空間 交錯狂亂 上下舞成一片 走著走著 越出價值意義之外 踏破禁錮時光的囚籠 邁向夜的盡頭 命的盡頭 一踏足 一轉身 又自覺地沉淪到底 靈魂超脫 得成正果 Post Marijuana The euphoria that follows marijuana The twisting and turning Stretching into empty space Craziness and chaos intermingling Mixing good and evil Moving on and on Beyond the sense of value Breaking the shackles of the prisoner’s age of time Striding towards the edge of the night The furthest edge of life Treading, spinning Consciously sinking to the bottom Detached from the soul To become a saint
- Departments
- Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 2014.57.2
- Credit Line
- Gift of Fung Ming Chip and Yim Tom
- Rights Statement
- © artist or artist's estate
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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