Grotto Fine Art at Ink Asia 2023
Booth H8
Hall 3, HKCEC
Oct 5 - 8, 2022 / VIP Preview Oct 4

WAI Pongyu 韋邦雨
”An Elephant’s Reverie”

In recent years, the many constraints imposed on us seem to have limited our imagination for the future. I would like to see that there are still many areas waiting for us to explore. This optimistic hope grew stronger when I had an encounter, a special moment in my usual mountain walk from my home.

It was a very quiet, sunny afternoon. I walked past a lone pine tree, rooted behind a barbed wire fence. As I was approaching a bamboo thicket across the road, I could see and hear clearly its many bamboo leaves fluttering and rustling. It seemed that the strength of the wind was just enough to move the bamboo leaves, but not any other leaves. And the rhythm of the wind brought a long continuous whisper out of the bamboo leaves. The sound inspired me because it reminded me of the vast space surrounding me, its possibilities, and an ideal of collective vitality.

The murmuring sound recalled how I use line drawing to travel between binary boundaries: ideal and reality, movement and pause, trace and discard. So I would like to think that by using this act of line movement, with the sensitivity of ballpoint pen ink and paper, I could reanimate a sense of ceaseless intimacy between my mind and that moment, my hand and my city.