Chao Er Tai

1974

Well

POST WINGS

This work almost abandons representational imagery, retaining only a dark brushstroke diagonally entering from the right side of the canvas, reminiscent of the traces left behind after the tide has receded. The horizontal accumulation of ink above resembles distant shores and reefs, as well as the afterimages left by wind and waves in the air; below, a large expanse of blank space and light blue layering create an unnamed void.

Here, Zhao Erdai no longer depicts the sea, the shore, or the sky, but directly writes of "the power that once occurred." The tide has receded, the wind has vanished, and only the traces remain. The vertical lines in the artwork serve as marks of time, solidifying movement into stillness, allowing the viewer to experience a kind of post-event silence—not a landscape, but memory itself.

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