Breaking out

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The use of multiple perspectives in her output comes from Northern Song (960-1127) paintings and the use of line in her paintings is quite an Asian process of taking elements out, as well as an unconscious ying-yang balance.

She believes her aesthetic and visual sense and working process exhibit Buddhist and Taoist ways of thinking.

"I use a lot of repetition in my work, a meditative process, also a bit like the process of chanting," she says. "Underlying most of my work is the idea of impermanence that form is emptiness and emptiness is form."

A poet herself, Chiang Yomei's works show a poetic rhythm. She says her visual work and poetry are like "rivers flowing from the same source".

"All of my works, whatever the mediums are, share a lot of imagery, which come from dreams, memories, imagination or from a collective subconscious."

Contact the writer at linqi@chinadaily.com.cn

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