Zhu Da's most famous work The White-eyed Bird.

Zhu Da's most famous work The White-eyed Bird is The Lonely Bird.

The bird rolling its eyes is the most familiar label left by Zhu Da, a native of Badashan Mountain. This kind of modeling completed in a few strokes makes ink painting faint in propaganda, makes meaning and image complement each other in ink painting, and gradually condenses into an imaginative life.

"Re-carving" these aloof birds has become their obsession this year, and it has also become the most interesting thing this year-when two-dimensional white-eyed birds become three-dimensional playthings, there will always be surprises in the process of constant adjustment.

The first surprise is the extreme coincidence of blue-and-white stone and ink painting artistic conception. The faint texture of ink and wash makes the continuation of ink and wash rhyme possible. The texture of the stone itself, coupled with the light and shadow effect produced by the thickness, often produces an effect with a few strokes. People say that "ink is divided into five colors", and this blue and white stone is probably the same.

This is a surprise and the biggest challenge-in the unified black and white tone, once the leaves deflect, this detail will change the overall line, and the mood of the bird is just in these details.

"Creating different bird personalities" comes from "blade deflection" again and again. When the second white-eyed bird manuscript is repeatedly created as a plaything, it is necessary to delete the parts that are not conducive to getting started, such as bird claws. At the same time, from two-dimensional to three-dimensional creation, in the "out of control" again and again, the proportion coordination is getting better and better.

Jade carving is the art of subtraction. Unlike clay sculpture, cut more and make up less. The slight loss of the knife is irreversible. In order to make the white-eyed bird have both the sharpness of the visual pen and the warm touch of the hand, the softness of the feather, the expression of the tail and the lines of the muscles need to be tested repeatedly.

Different materials and expression languages, in the matter of "re-engraving", what they can do is to take meaning. This is their only insistence when they started to create this group of works.

But when eight birds rolled their eyes in front of them, they still found something that didn't belong to the Big Eight. Loneliness becomes arrogance, cynicism increases loveliness, conceit becomes leering, and more emotions become our own. Just like horses, sheep, snails and monks in the past. Emotional nodes are kept in these white eyes.