Untitled (2010-0)

Lin Xue "seek[s] the ultimate spiritual condition through painting." His artistic process begins in rural mountains, where he carefully observes and sketches nature. These sketches create a vocabulary of forms that the artist reproduces from memory in his ink compositions. He gazes silently at the blank paper until images emerge in his mind. He then applies ink with a bamboo twig, a tool literally connecting his artwork to nature. Delicate lines form organic images that seem both real and imagined, earthly and otherworldly, familiar and unfamiliar. Notice Lin Xue's personal seal on the paper edge. This marker indicates the completion of his process and his reentry to the "here and now."