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7-YUAN Hui-Li-More is Less: Bittersweetness

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The work employs stop-motion photography and animation to magnify the layered textures of ink, revealing nuanced traces within an otherwise chaotic field of brushstrokes. The artist begins by writing the cursive characters for Bittersweetness, drawn from the final inscription of the Chinese monk Master Hong Yi, whose last words expressed deep compassion for the world. The artist overlays the written characters with successive layers of ink stains, gradually dissolving their semantic meaning into the visual field. This process creates an ambiguous tension between visibility and obscurity, presence and absence.
Yuan Hui-Li, who also goes by the pen name Yuan Shu, began her exploration of contemporary ink art following formal academic training in fine arts. Her Stains of Time series is among her most representative works. Through the repeated layering of thousands of ink dots and strokes, she evokes the slow accumulation of time as it envelops memory, shaping an ink-saturated space imbued with temporal resonance.