Bend in the Mountain River Near the Bingling-Si Cave Temples, from the series "Sacrifice" One from a set of twenty-four album leaves; ink on paper; with signature in clerical script (lishu) reading "Li Junyi 06"

Editor: This is Lee Chun-Yi's "Bend in the Mountain River Near the Bingling-Si Cave Temples," from his series "Sacrifice". It's a mesmerizing landscape, but rendered through this unusual grid. How do you read that choice of form? Curator: That grid is key. It highlights the labor involved in its making and points to the consumption of the landscape itself, almost as if measured and commodified. What about the title "Sacrifice"? How does that relate to materiality? Editor: The "Sacrifice" part makes me think about what is lost in representing nature this way, perhaps sacrificing the true experience. Curator: Precisely. The image itself becomes a product, a stand-in for the actual place. The artist emphasizes how we interact with the natural world through production and consumption. Editor: So, it's less about the mountain and more about how we *see* the mountain? I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks! Curator: Absolutely. Considering the materials and their context opens up new ways to interpret the work.