Tension Experiments：Illusory Forms Series

*Tension Experiments · Illusory Forms* (2024) revisits the ink system of Chinese painting, using ink and xuan paper as its central medium. The works embody a paradox of viewing: from a distance, they seem to depict landscapes, as if mountains and waters emerge; yet upon close inspection, the forms dissolve, leaving only washes of ink, textures, and the flow of tension. This oscillation between “presence and absence” becomes a meditation on the notion of representation. It not only exposes the mechanism of illusion within image perception, but also provokes questions about reality itself: how much of what we call the true “image” may also be illusion? And what is it that generates such illusions?