Painting the Dao

88 ak16.79 The Story of the Stone, No.2 Ink and watercolour on cloud-dragon paper 152.0 × 72.5 cm, Hong Kong, December 2016 Three artist seals 水松石山房 Shuisongshi shanfang (Water, Pine and Stone Retreat) 如如居士 Ruru Jushi (Retired scholar who believes all doctrines equal) 墨者不朽 Mozhe buxiu (Let ink be my immortality) Published The Master of the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat, Beyond the Stage of Time , ii: Staff Masters and Stone Fools (Hong Kong: Rasti Chinese Art, 2020), 320 inscr iption Snow clouds part unexpectedly The moon glimpses thousand-foot falls Their song muffled between iced cliffs Once again winter settles on the gorge Closing in my silent world Home-bound cranes recall to mind The Resident of the Eastern Slope