​Upon the Peak 在山

2025
Ink and colour on paper
水墨設色紙本
134 × 74 cm

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In this work, bamboo trees serve as the foreground, creating a visual "screen" that not only enhances the spatial layering with the landscape behind but also divides the picture into multiple irregularly shaped sections, each becoming an independent scene in its own right. This approach draws on the concept of "leaking windows" in Chinese garden architecture, allowing the viewer's gaze to penetrate the lattice window and draw the exterior view into sight. This method of peering from the foreground into the background echoes the "deep distance" methods of traditional landscape painting. By employing a top-down, bird's-eye perspective, the landscape is captured what would otherwise be a "level distance" vista, seamlessly integrating the "three distances" into a shifting visual experience.

​這件作品以竹樹作為前景，在視覺上形成一道「障隔」，不僅強化了與後方山水之間的空間層次，也將畫面切割出多個形狀不一的區塊，使每一區塊各自成為獨立的風景。此法借鑑了園林建築中「漏窗」的概念，觀者的視線得以穿透窗格，將窗外的景致引入眼簾。這種由前景窺探後景的觀看方式，呼應了傳統山水「深遠」之法。山水採用由上而下的俯視視角，將本為平遠格局的景色盡收眼底，將「三遠法」融合在可變的視覺之中。