Abstracts
Abstract
This article shares a living poetically in the act of calligraphy practice with the character 静 jing in Chinese writing Xie Zi, the practice writing Lian Zi and Chinese Calligraphy Shu Fa. I explore the liminal space of silence and stillness in the character 静 jing. A meditation on the art of Chinese calligraphy and a personal ethnography on Asian identity and artmaking. What transpires when materials and memories are ephemeral?
Keywords:
- Chinese calligraphy,
- Poetic Inquiry,
- Identity,
- silence
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