Mists along a Mountain River, 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"

Curator: Lee Chun-Yi’s "Mists along a Mountain River," part of the "Sacrifice" series, presents a gridded landscape with meticulous detail. Editor: Whoa, it feels like looking at a pixelated memory. Almost like a dream fading into the screen of some forgotten technology. Curator: The piece, undated, explores the intersection of traditional landscape painting and contemporary printmaking techniques. The grid itself becomes part of the landscape. Editor: The grid almost feels like a tool of measurement, like trying to capture something immense, like nature, and reducing it to data. Curator: I agree. The artist might be commenting on the commodification and control of nature through such systems. Editor: Maybe. Or it's about how we perceive landscape through a digital lens now. Either way, the artist's choice of materials and their labor is so apparent. Curator: It's a stark, yet strangely beautiful meditation on how we relate to the natural world. Editor: Yes, I keep being drawn back to the human effort involved in its making. So fragile, but so powerful.