"I do not want to continue 'playing safe' in traditional calligraphy. I always want to play with alternative writing,” said the artist. Hsu Yungchin used to test the boundaries between calligraphy and painting. In this work, he wrote an abstract of "Dao De Jing" of Lao Tzu, an ancient Chinese philosophy classic, in yellow against the blue background. With the deconstruction of text, splashing ink and brushstrokes on the canvas, he establishes a distinctive modern calligraphy art, which visual element is considered as main concept.
