“The key anchoring feature in this painting is the large expanse of short coloured dashes over the foreground, whereupon a row of building seemingly arises. These dashes were created by folding the rice papers into overlapping flaps (like an accordion) and painting across them, then spreading them out flat during the mounting process. It highlights the material quality of the rice paper and creates an intriguing patterned surface that mirrors the urban city space. Through the arrangement of the other formal elements in the traditional Chinese ink landscape format of varying perspectives, the landscape created blended the Eastern element of traditional Chinese ink with the Western modernist element of formalistic abstraction.”

“This painting is a blend of Eastern and Western painting conventions into an integrated surface. It combines the Western modernist use of perspective and grids together with the 3 distances way of composition of traditional Chinese Ink landscape painting. Blending as such the painting creates a dynamic surface that echos the dynamism of the city.”