Meet the Artist - The Great Hall Commission: Tong Yang-Tze, Dialogue

He said, there is a part of writing that he is not satisfied with, or there is a bit of ink rust, which is not allowed. Sometimes, when I write, I know it's not right, I'll die right away. I can make such a decision. So, it's not like painting, you can use paint, paint, wait for it to dry, then paint, then modify. Literature and art are integrated. When I was in the fourth grade, I moved from Shanghai to Taiwan. At that time, my father and I started to write. Every day, we wrote 100 big words and 200 small words. Of course, when I started to write, I was very good at writing. I kept writing until middle school and high school. When we were in the tenth grade, we had to modify oil paintings, ink paintings, and wall paintings. We had to fix all of them. And we, especially those who studied art, came here and got a lot of support. It was a rare opportunity. Because the food was too abundant, and the materials were too abundant. In my memory, the last time I came here was 50 years ago. The first time I came to the United States, I saw a lot of Western oil paintings. They were very large. This made me, I mean, it was very challenging. I may be able to do bigger things in the future. But I think, I've been learning literary art since I was a child. I was thinking, maybe I should try to make literary art a contemporary art. There are many ways of writing, and many compositions. In Chinese, a painting should be placed in a low position. What is a low position? It can't be placed according to one's own consciousness. How big should it be? This is closely related to space. That's it. It means that the same text can be presented differently on different walls. This is the charm of literary art. The charm of literary art will never run out. The challenge of writing a big book, in my memory, is a physical challenge. It takes about a day to finish a page. So, the most important thing in Chinese calligraphy is air. You can't wait until the next day. That's when the air runs out. It's a little difficult to finish a book at this age. But I still have the courage to accept the challenge. Because I think there are many structures in my mind that I can't imagine. I chose 16 pages to make this book. Because this wall is very big, I may hang it in the warehouse of an old car. I was not satisfied with the first time I went there. All failed. When I came back, I made a mistake. I knew which one was wrong at a glance. Okay, please take this down. Take it down. Take it down first. But in this way, I have to make four or five pages, six or seven pages in a row. This time, I used four or five or six hundred pages. So, this project is quite big. Let me see. I'm afraid it will be too narrow. No, it won't. Is it narrower than the top? But I think the proportion is right. The size of your work is the same as this wall. Yes. I have different ideas every day. I started to write big. At that time, people asked me why I wrote so big. I said you were too careless. I have to write bigger to attract your attention. I just want to make a breakthrough and challenge myself. Because writing with a pen and a screen is a matter of cultivation and self-cultivation. I chose the play to target myself first. So, in this selection of questions for the majority, I think it's dialogue. Of course, it's dialogue to myself. At the same time, I also hope to have a dialogue with the reader. The Stone of Tashan can be cultivated. That is to say, the position of the major city hall and the Stone of Tashan can be cultivated. What impressed me the most was that I saw Egypt recently and saw the historical relics of many countries. I saw their works of art. It really made me face the impact of this sentence on me. This is what we should learn and maintain. Of course, according to my traditional study of calligraphy, from top to bottom, from right to left, I can see the focus of the play. I will strongly express the thicker lines and the finer lines of the calligraphy. As for the second sentence, the foot should be careful and the cloth should not be stopped. This is a saying of the calligrapher. This is another point of view Now, in my personal opinion, the sincerity between people is the most important. Of course, I hope the world is peaceful and there is no war. If everyone is sincere to face the problems they should face, I think the world will be peaceful forever. We calligraphy is a multi-layered art. I believe that calligraphy art will be revived one day.