Ink

A couple of weeks ago I went to see the opening of Professor Wendong Ren’s show, “Ink,” at the University. Interesting and beautiful images hung on canvas scrolls along the wall. I asked him a question about his methods, and he graciously took me over and showed me the brush type he uses and described the painting process, the type of paper and how it’s made in a 3,000-year-old Chinese process (that Japanese imitators can’t match, he was at pains to explain to me). He also explained to me about the chops (red-ink stamps) on some of the images. The first is the initials of his name, another appeared to be something about moonlight, under which he likes to work. Before I left his assistant took a picture of me with him in front of some of the works shown above. Beautiful!