Mountains and Pines in Moonlight, 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 90"

Editor: Here we have Lee Chun-Yi's "Mountains and Pines in Moonlight", from 2005. It looks like a landscape, but printed with a grid. What do you see in this piece? Curator: I see a powerful commentary on the means of image production. The gridded landscape, reproduced via what appears to be some form of printmaking, highlights the mediation inherent in our consumption of even seemingly natural scenes. Editor: So, you're saying it's less about the landscape itself and more about how we see it? Curator: Precisely. The artist makes us aware of the labor involved in creating and consuming images. We are implicated in the process. Editor: I never thought about it that way. Now I see it too. Curator: Indeed. It's a powerful reminder to consider the processes behind what we see.