Drip (一点一点)
一点一点 (yī diǎn yī diǎn) means "bit by bit." 点 also means dot, or drop, so the phrase is doing two things at once, bit by bit, and drop by drop.
This series is made by dripping drops of ink and water side by side onto paper, left to meet on their own.
We don't push them together, or pull them apart either. The paper, the ink, the water, and nature decide whether they pull towards or away from each other, how it spreads, how far it bleeds. We only choose where the first drop lands. After that, we wait.
By the time it's dry, something has already happened without us.
This is part of an ongoing series within Things, where our role shrinks to setting conditions and staying out of the way. A way to co-create with nature and let go of controlling the outcome.
ARTWORK DETAILS
Ink and water dripped on raw xuan paper, unmounted.
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