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In the Cyano-Collage series, Wu Chi-Tsung substitutes the ink and brushwork of traditional Chinese Shan Shui painting with experimental photographic processes, reinterpreting the language of Eastern landscape imagery. Conceived as a tribute to the late artist and critic Ni Tsai-Chin – whose intellectual breadth and commitment to cultural subjectivity deeply influenced Wu’s formative years – the series stands as both a commemoration and a renewed dialogue with tradition.

To produce these works, Wu coats Xuan paper with a photosensitive emulsion, crumples it, and exposes it to sunlight, allowing the day’s shifting light and shadow to mark the surface. From dozens of resulting cyanotype sheets in striking Prussian blue, he carefully selects, reconfigures, and collages the fragments onto canvas. Presented in a manner that echoes both classical Shan Shui and the visual language of photomontage, Cyano-Collage meditates on the intersection of past and present, manual craft and photographic technology.