Images based on on Buddhist stories and teachings

In this series, I’m using my own name to explore the graphic dimensions of Chinese calligraphy. The grid is from an exercise template used by students and novice calligraphers. Here I use it to represent tradition and authority

All life is related. Even if our forms are different, we are manifestations of the same great spirit.  With these images I blur the lines separating the different species. I reject the notion that humans have dominion over nature. I think it important to see life this way as we face the existential problem of planetary survival.