Creating the Destruction that Creates the Creation reflects over three decades of research and practice within the lineage of historical calligraphy. Rather than adopting calligraphy as a stylistic device, this work engages its origins—from inscriptions on wood, bamboo, and Oracle Bone, through Zen and Samurai traditions, to the fusion of Eastern calligraphy and Western abstraction. Central to this exploration is the act of doing—the gestural process as verb—where the line, the foundation of both text and calligraphy, becomes a conduit for meaning.
The POLY-GLYPH and ART OF WAR series combine the QWERTY line, developed as a contemporary form of information transfer, with the ancient medium of gunpowder fused to modern substrates. Drawing on passages from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, these works translate ancient text into digital and painterly forms, merging history with innovation. Through the conflation of destruction and creation, the series continues calligraphy’s long tradition of transformation—honouring its past while expanding its expressive potential for the present.
