15. Chou Yu, The Weeping Dew on a Thousand Grasses
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The Taiwanese artist Chou Yu often wrote spontaneously, sometimes while sharing tea and conversation with friends. This piece, The Weeping Dew on a Thousand Grasses, was likely created in such a lively, relaxed moment. The brush moves quickly with long, open strokes. You can see dry textures, splashes of ink, and areas of empty space. These blank pauses give rhythm and depth, while the scattered characters, like blades of grass, seem to dance with the energy of conversation. Chou didn’t follow the usual scroll or couplet format. Instead, he treated the paper as a space for movement —a place where vision, breath, and sound could flow together through the brush. Here, calligraphy becomes more than writing; it’s a living response to the moment, a daily practice of awareness, feeling, and friendship.
15. Chou Yu, The Weeping Dew on a Thousand Grasses
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