This painting takes the mythological universe of The Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shan Hai Jing) as its spiritual core, reimagining the ancient fantastical world through an abstract and resplendent visual language. It is not a realistic depiction of any specific mythical creature or scene, but rather an emblematic translation of the Shan Hai Jing’s essence—“the animism of all things, the primordial chaos of heaven and earth, and the coexistence of gods and monsters.” It feels as if fragments of memory from the “realm of great wilderness” have been splashed across the canvas.
