Lingering echoes

Author: Pang Yan
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: I have sung many songs with my brush and compiled them into this collection. Good songs often leave lingering echoes, unbroken and continuous. Such lingering thoughts and emotions are the most natural embodiment of the soul of painting. Music and painting are twin sisters, originating from the same source yet differing in form. Drawing with notes and singing with a brush should not be a difficult task. Thus, I have sung many songs with my brush and compiled them into this collection. Unlike personalized works that deliberately construct and showcase the creator's spiritual world, the works in this collection are fundamentally egoless: because the original creators of the songs have already established a stable tone for the works' spiritual character. Their popularity has further replicated countless copies of the original tone, deeply occupying the hearts of the singers. Despite this, the value and meaning of the works are essentially realized through a collaboration between the creators and the audience. Without the duet of the audience and the creator in spirit, the original value and meaning would lose their vitality. In this sense, a work must pass through the harmonies created by many different minds before it ultimately realizes its meaning. Therefore, I am both an appreciator of original songs and a creator who adds myself into them. I am both a responsive listener who hides my "self" while listening to the melodies and an active participant who explores themes for self-expression. Good songs often leave lingering echoes, unbroken and continuous. Such lingering thoughts and emotions are the most natural embodiment of the soul of painting. They can stir emotions, refine character; they can "dance the hidden dragons of deep gorges" or "weep for the widows of solitary boats." I hope my paintings will be the subtle commentary beyond the rhyme that brings you a knowing smile, or the new realm that unfolds through analogy.