Post-Marijuana, Sand Script

Fung Ming Chip

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Object Label

Through his radical deconstruction and reinvention of traditional calligraphic forms, Fung Ming Chip has created more than one hundred unique script styles. The artist first writes with water on a blank sheet of paper; the characters become visible only after he applies a layer of dark ink over it. Where the water has saturated the paper, the ink is only partially absorbed, leaving enigmatic traces of characters that float on the surface of the composition. In this painting, the play of light focuses the viewer’s attention on the images as they ebb and flow in rhythmic pulsating layers of ink, emphasizing the visual experience rather than the meaning of the text. A self-taught calligrapher, Fung is the rare artist who carves his own seals and then uses them in unconventional ways to frame the abstracted calligraphic forms in his paintings. Two of his seals are on view in the adjacent display case, on the “Life of a Scholar.”

Caption

Fung Ming Chip. Post-Marijuana, Sand Script, 2013. Ink on paper, with cord and knobs: 105 15/16 × 51 in. (269.1 × 129.5 cm) image: 71 3/8 × 37 in. (181.3 × 94 cm) mount: 105 3/16 × 47 3/8 in. (267.2 × 120.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Fung Ming Chip and Yim Tom, 2014.57.2. © Fung Ming Chip.

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

Asian Art

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

Asian Art

Artist

Fung Ming Chip

Title

Post-Marijuana, Sand Script

Date

2013

Medium

Ink on paper

Classification

Work on Paper

Dimensions

with cord and knobs: 105 15/16 × 51 in. (269.1 × 129.5 cm) image: 71 3/8 × 37 in. (181.3 × 94 cm) mount: 105 3/16 × 47 3/8 in. (267.2 × 120.3 cm)

Signatures

2013seals: 四不館（Four NO studio-his studio name）明秋（ming chip）明明德（Cultivating good behavior） 5 small seals : 6,10, 8, 9, 5.

Inscriptions

大麻之後麻後的幸福掙扎扭動張向空虛空間交錯狂亂上下舞成一片走著走著越出價值意義之外踏破禁錮時光的囚籠邁向夜的盡頭命的盡頭一踏足一轉身又自覺地沉淪到底靈魂超脫得成正果 Post Marijuana The euphoria that follows marijuana The twisting and turning Stretching into empty space Craziness and chaos intermingling Mixing good and evil Moving on and on Beyond the sense of value Breaking the shackles of the prisoner’s age of time Striding towards the edge of the night The furthest edge of life Treading, spinning Consciously sinking to the bottom Detached from the soul To become a saint

Markings

13P8-8

Credit Line

Gift of Fung Ming Chip and Yim Tom

Accession Number

2014.57.2

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Fung Ming Chip

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