《等风来：自然入心》

Waiting for the Wind:Letting Nature Enter the Heart

有时候，你站在山前，并未所想，

只是站着。

风从远处来，轻轻掠过树梢，水面波纹荡开，像是慢慢进入你的心里。那一刻，你忽然安静下来，好像有什么在体内醒了。不是声音，也不是形象，而是一种难以言说的触动。

Sometimes, you stand before the mountains, thinking of nothing at all — simply standing there.

The wind comes from afar, gently brushing past the treetops. Ripples spread across the water, as if slowly entering your heart. In that moment, you suddenly become still, as though something within you has awakened. It is not a sound, nor an image, but a feeling—something beyond words.

山海  Mountains and Sea

2026 ｜ 宣纸马克笔  Marker on Xuan Paper

你说不清它是什么。

但你确实感觉到了什么。

也许，这就是开始。

中国人看世界，并不急。

不急着评判，不急着理解，甚至不急着表达。我们习惯于等待。

You can’t quite explain what it is,

but you truly feel that something is there.

Perhaps, this is the beginning.

The Chinese way of seeing the world is not rushed.

There is no hurry to judge, no hurry to understand,

and not even a hurry to express.

We are accustomed to waiting.

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纳古拉海滩  Laguna Beach,

2026 ｜ 宣纸马克笔  Marker on Xuan Paper

等什么？

等风来。

等那一口气，从天地之间缓缓落下，流入人心。

气一来，万物便活。

气不来，再精致的画面，也不过是摆设。

Waiting for what?

Waiting for the wind to arrive.

Waiting for that breath of qi to descend slowly between heaven and earth,

and flow into the human heart.

When qi arrives, all things come alive.

When it does not, even the most exquisite scene is nothing more than decoration.

橙县公园的树  Trees in Orange County Park

2026 ｜ 宣纸马克笔  Marker on Xuan Paper

所以，中国艺术从来不复制自然。

Therefore, Chinese art has never sought to replicate nature.

曼陀罗  Mandala

2025 ｜ 宣纸新彩墨 New Color - Ink on Xuan Paper

红千层  Bottlebrush

2025 ｜ 宣纸新彩墨 New Color - Ink on Xuan Paper

扶桑  Hibiscus

2025 ｜ 宣纸新彩墨 New Color - Ink on Xuan Paper

它不是把山搬到画面上，也不是把水画成水。它所做的，是让自然进入心中，使气息在内里转动、生发，再慢慢生成出来。

It does not transplant mountains onto the canvas, nor does it simply paint water as water. What it does is allow nature to enter the heart, letting the breath of qi circulate and grow within, and then slowly take form.

美人蕉  Canna Lily

2025 ｜ 宣纸新彩墨 New Color - Ink on Xuan Paper

柠檬  Lemon

2025 ｜ 宣纸新彩墨 New Color - Ink on Xuan Paper

当它显现时，已不再是原来的自然，

而成为一种理想的境界。

这，便是自然入心。

这条路，没有捷径。

既不是技巧的堆砌，也不是经验的拼合。它更像种一棵树 —— 你看不见它在地下发生什么，但终有一天，它会自然生长出来。

由物入感，由感入心，由心成象。

自然进入身体，在其中沉淀、转化、生发，最终以一种全新的方式呈现。

When it appears, it is no longer the original nature,

but has become an ideal realm.

This is what it means for nature to enter the heart.

There is no shortcut on this path.

It is neither an accumulation of techniques nor a patchwork of experience.

It is more like planting a tree — you cannot see what happens beneath the ground, yet one day, it will grow naturally.

From object to feeling, from feeling to the heart, from the heart to form.

Nature enters the body, settles, transforms, grows within, and ultimately emerges in an entirely new way.

水域森林间  Among the Forests and Waters

2016 ｜ 宣纸新彩墨 New Color - Ink on Xuan Paper

艺术，不是做出来的。

Art is not something that is made.

生息  Among the Forests and Waters

2016 ｜ 宣纸新彩墨 New Color - Ink on Xuan Paper

真正的艺术，是生长出来的。

True art is something that grows.

戏水清凉  Among the Forests and Waters

2016 ｜ 宣纸新彩墨 New Color - Ink on Xuan Paper

不经历风雨，难见彩虹。

Without going through wind and rain, it is hard to see a rainbow.

书法，最早把这件事说透。

Calligraphy was the first to fully express this truth.

纵观书法的发展，可以看到其中气的流转与变化。

Looking across the development of calligraphy, one can see the flow and transformation of qi within it.

云上观象 Observing Phenomena Above the Clouds

2026 ｜ 宣纸书法 - Xuan Paper Calligraphy

一笔下去，你以为是在写字，其实是在呼吸。

轻，是吸；重，是呼；停，是气在转；行，是气在走。

写得通，整张纸都是活的。

写不通，再好看，也只是形。

写到最后，字已不重要。

With each stroke, you think you are writing words, but in truth, you are breathing.

Light is an inhale; heavy is an exhale.

A pause is the turning of qi; movement is the flow of qi.

When it flows, the entire page comes alive.

When it does not, no matter how beautiful it looks, it is only form.

In the end, the characters themselves no longer matter.

吉顺  Auspicious Harmony

2026 ｜ 布本书法 - Cloth Calligraphy

留下的是一口气的行走，是人存在过的痕迹。

到了当代，徐冰先生做了一件极有意味的事 ——

What remains is the movement of a single breath of qi,

a trace that a person once existed.

In the contemporary era, Xu Bing did something profoundly meaningful —

他让字变得不可读。

你读不了，却被吸住。

你不知道它写了什么，但你知道它在“发生”。

这一步，让书法从“读”走向“感”，

也让它从中国，走向世界。

如果说书法让气成为线，

那么绘画让气成为可以停留的空间。

中国绘画，从来不复制自然。

它更像是在重建一个世界。

山，不再只是山，而是一种可进入的境；

水，不再只是水，而是一种流动的时间。

你站在画前，一开始是在看。

看着看着，你就不再看了 —— 你进去了。

贾又福先生的山，是长出来的。

He made characters unreadable.

You cannot read them, yet you are drawn in.

You do not know what they say, but you sense that something is “happening.”

With this step, calligraphy moved from “reading” to “feeling,”

and from China to the world.

If calligraphy turns qi into line,

then painting turns qi into a space in which it can dwell.

Chinese painting has never sought to replicate nature.

It is more like the reconstruction of a world.

Mountains are no longer merely mountains, but realms one can enter;

water is no longer merely water, but a flow of time.

You stand before a painting, at first you are looking.

But as you keep looking, you are no longer just looking — you have entered it.

The mountains of Jia Youfu seem to have grown from within.

厚、重、安静，像从大地深处生长，又像在高处俯观万物。他不是在画山，而是在让山入心。

Thick, weighty, and quiet — as if growing from deep within the earth, yet also as if observing all things from a great height.

He is not painting mountains; he is allowing the mountains to enter the heart.

赵无极先生更进一步。

Zao Wou-Ki went a step further.

他甚至不再保留山的形，而直接呈现一种“在”。那是一片空间，一种力量，一种流动的时间与气息。你无法定义它，却愿意停留。

He no longer even retains the form of mountains, but directly presents a sense of “being.”

It is a space, a force, a flowing of time and breath.

You cannot define it, yet you are willing to remain within it.

丁绍光先生，则像是在开启一扇门。

Ding Shaoguang, on the other hand, is like opening a door.

他让图像更易进入，让世界有了入口，从而慢慢接近东方的精神之境。

不仅是绘画。

声音之中，也有这口气。

He makes images easier to enter, giving the world an entry point, and in doing so, gradually draws us closer to the spiritual realm of the East.

It is not only in painting.

Within sound, too, there is this breath of qi.

谭盾先生让水发声，让自然进入时间。你听到的，不只是音乐，而是自然在流动。

Tan Dun lets water give voice, allowing nature to enter time. What you hear is not just music, but nature in motion.

身体之中，同样如此。

The same is true within the body.

李小龙先生将对自然的体悟融入身体，让动作成为通道，使气在瞬间贯通。那一刻，身体与精神合而为一。

Bruce Lee integrated his understanding of nature into the body, turning movement into a channel through which qi flows in an instant. In that moment, body and spirit become one.

于是，一切开始清晰：

书法，是线中的气。

绘画，是象中的气。

音乐，是时间中的气。

武术，是身体中的气。

看似不同，实则同源。

它们都在完成一件事 ——

让自然进入人，

再由人生成世界。

但问题也在这里。

世界看见了中国艺术，却常常停留在表面。

看见形式，看见风格，看见东方的意味，却未真正触及那一口气。

于是，它有时成为装饰，成为标签，成为“好看”。

但它本来，不只是“好看”。

它是一种活的结构。

所以，当下真正要做的，不是复制传统，也不是简单创新，

And so, everything begins to become clear:

Calligraphy is qi within line.

Painting is qi within form.

Music is qi within time.

Martial arts is qi within the body.

They may appear different, yet they share the same origin.

They are all engaged in the same task —

to let nature enter the human,

and then, through the human, give rise to a world.

But here, too, lies the problem.

The world has seen Chinese art, yet often remains on the surface.

It sees the forms, the styles, the sense of the East,

but does not truly touch that breath of qi.

And so, at times, it becomes decoration, a label, something merely “beautiful.”

But it was never meant to be just “beautiful.”

It is a living structure.

Therefore, what truly needs to be done today is not to replicate tradition, nor to pursue simple innovation,

悠然自得  At Ease and Content

2023 ｜ 宣纸新彩墨 New Color - Ink on Xuan Paper

而是再生。

让它在当代继续发生。

在这样的背景下，新彩墨画与马克笔画的探索，便不只是材料的变化，而是一种语言的继续生长。

新彩墨画，不再只是颜色。

but to regenerate it —

to allow it to continue unfolding in the present.

In this context, the exploration of new color-ink painting and marker drawing is not merely a change of materials, but the continued growth of a language.

New color-ink painting is no longer just about color.

祥光普照  Auspicious Light Shining Everywhere

2012 ｜ 宣纸新彩墨 New Color - Ink on Xuan Paper

颜色开始流动、呼吸、渗透与交织。画面不再被填满，而是在生成。你不是在涂色，而是在看它生长。

马克笔画，则更直接。

Color begins to flow, to breathe, to permeate and intertwine.

The surface is no longer filled—it is being generated.

You are not coloring; you are watching it grow.

Marker drawing, by contrast, is more direct.

加州的树   Trees of California

2026 ｜ 宣纸马克笔  Marker on Xuan Paper

层层叠加之间，节奏自然形成。没有预设，只有发生。画着画着，画面便自己呈现出来。

这时你会发现 ——

你不是在控制画面，

而是在参与它的生长。

画，不是完成的。

是长出来的。

这，就是再生。

也是推进。

从自然到心象，这条路一直都在。

只是有时被忽略，有时被遮蔽。

但它从未消失。

它一直在那里，等着你。

等风来。

等那一刻 —— 自然进入心中，心开始生长。

当有一天，一个人站在画前，不需要解释，不需要语言，只是静静地看，便能感受到那一股流动的气息 ——

那一刻，

一切已经发生。

中国艺术，也才真正被世界触及。

不是被观看，

而是被感知。

Through layers of accumulation, a rhythm naturally takes shape.

There is no preset plan — only unfolding.

As you continue, the image begins to reveal itself.

At that moment, you realize —

you are not controlling the image,

you are participating in its growth.

A painting is not something completed.

It is something that grows.

This is regeneration.

And also, a way forward.

From nature to inner vision, this path has always existed.

At times it is overlooked, at times obscured —

but it has never disappeared.

It is always there, waiting for you.

Waiting for the wind to arrive.

Waiting for that moment — when nature enters the heart, and the heart begins to grow.

One day, when someone stands before a painting,

without the need for explanation, without the need for language,

simply gazing quietly, yet able to feel that flowing breath of qi —

in that moment,

everything has already happened.

Only then is Chinese art truly touched by the world —

not merely seen,

but felt.

孙宏涛（雍城子 / Joseph Sun）

旅美当代艺术家，新彩墨与马克笔绘画双体系的构建者与实践者，立足东方美学语境，致力于推进传统媒介在当代绘画语言中的创新与可持续演进。

举办多次个人展览，出版多部专著，作品与理论文章发表于专业平台并多次获得相关学术奖项。作品曾在中国美术馆、山东省美术馆、浙江美术馆、江苏美术馆、广东美术馆、陕西省美术博物馆、西安美术馆、上海美术馆等专业机构展出与收藏，并在美国、法国、日本、德国、捷克、马来西亚、韩国、印度等国家传播。

现为中国美术家协会会员、美国国际艺术协会（AIAP-IAA）会员。

更多信息与展讯可检索：“画家 孙宏涛”。

Hongtao Sun (Yongchengzi / Joseph Sun)

Contemporary artist based in the United States, founder and practitioner of a dual-system painting approach integrating Polychrome Ink and Marker-Based Painting. Rooted in an Eastern aesthetic framework, his work is dedicated to advancing the innovation and sustainable development of traditional media within contemporary painting language.

He has held multiple solo exhibitions, published several monographs, and received numerous academic awards. His works and theoretical writings have been featured on professional platforms. His works have been exhibited and collected by institutions including the National Art Museum of China, Shandong Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum, Jiangsu Art Museum, Guangdong Museum of Art, Shaanxi Art Museum, Xi’an Art Museum, and Shanghai Art Museum, and have been presented internationally across the United States, France, Japan, Germany, the Czech Republic, Malaysia, South Korea, and India.

He is a member of the China Artists Association and the International Association of Art (AIAP-IAA).

For more information and exhibitions, please search: “Artist Hongtao Sun”.