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Again and again and again


木 means tree. Draw it once, draw it a hundred times, and it's still called the same thing.

Every tree (木) looks much like the one before it. So does every mountain (山), every day (日), every drop of water (水) and every person (人). We give them the same names, yet no two are ever identical. The same is true of the words themselves. When you write something by hand, no two are ever identical.


Doing something again and again is often seen as practice, as though its only purpose is to get closer to perfect. But repetition can also be a way of letting the mind stop thinking and simply do. 

You write and write the same character over and over until the word stops becoming a word. The first time you write it, you think about the strokes and structure. By the hundredth time, you stop thinking about it and just write.


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Calligraphy ink on raw xuan paper, wet-mounted.
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