Li Huasheng: He Swallows in All the Great Wilderness. . . . He Becomes Wildly Free
Britta Erickson
Li Huasheng grasped this essential quality of our experience of life and found a way to express it directly through his art. This is his genius. Life travels in one direction. There can be no backtracking, no erasures, no possibility of pentimenti: any mistake remains to be lived with. This too is the nature of ink painting: lines cannot be erased, so one must plan well going forward. Li Huasheng distilled this experience of painting with brush and ink to its essential core, honing his discipline to paint grids of even lines, each line encapsulating the time elapsed in its painting...
