The making of Me and the Mountain: Huang Shan Pen Jing
1985 and 2019

Scanned slide, photographed by the artist on September 29, 1985 on the Yellow Mountains (Huang Shan), printed and collaged into painting in 2019 at Tau Hua Tan residency in Anhui Province, China. Acrylic paint on linen. 44" x 36".

Right bottom: Pen Jing (scholar rock) in fitted wooden tray

Right top: Scanned slide, photographed by the artist on September 29, 1985 in the Yellow Mountains (Huang Shan), printed and collaged into painting in 2019 at Tau Hua Tan residency in Anhui Province, China. 

The Mountain and Me
The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.
~ Li Bai 701-762 AD