Ching-Wei Wang (Way), Lu Gao, and Billy Chen presented Nothing Written on Water, a site-responsive afternoon collaboration staged amid the grass beside the temple. Working with the shifting interplay of light and shadow, the artists invited participants to engage in attentive walking and calligraphic mark-making as large sheets of paper beneath their feet gradually absorbed and released water under the movement of broom-like brushes. Way’s explorations of language, memory, and cultural displacement converged with Lu Gao’s integration of photography, architecture, and Zen meditation, informed by her two-year residency at a Forest Zen monastery in Hunan, while Billy Chen’s live flute performance created an acoustic score for the ephemeral choreography of shadow on stone. Through drawing, listening, and collective movement, the work proposed calligraphy as a form of slow, embodied perception.

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