What is the root occurring Ink Painting? Ink Painting would lose its inner character without the integration of nature, mind as well as ink and stroke. Because the Ink Painting at present situation no longer remains its traditional pattern, leaving impressions and afterimages which is merely the simple image buried in the bottom of heart. Ya Gong, the painter from the E Mei Mountain who knows it well, is trying to transform Ink Painting to a ‘Minded’ status of ‘After Ink’.  

What kind of pace should Ink Painting be at? Overly radicalness and westernization results in the lost of charm and manner; possessing no modernity merely inheriting the tradition. How to achieve the property of transformation? How to enlighten the charming manner through the property? Thus, in between the After Ink and Contemporary Ink existing a space to be unfolded, where Ya Gong’s Minded Landscape right carries out. In between the minimized ‘Forwards’ and the initialized ‘Backwards’, it forms a ‘Return’ and fold, the inner scale of the folding layer comes from the inner heart and mind, which is the deepest subtle mind rather than the mind opposite to object that consequence in pace of mind and breath in ink strokes responding and corresponding to the nature’s call.

Reconnecting the three elements, Ya Gong’s Minded Landscape attempts to attach new elegance for Ink. With E Mei Mountains’ view inspiring his mind, Ya Gong inherits the wideness and quietness of nature, picking fogs and clouds from E Mei to paint, echoing to resonance of the wild broad world. In the mean time the heart adoring the ancient remains in him, the Minded Landscape of Ya Gong, is the heart of Zen and conscience as well as the individual heart responding to the heart of the world. The whisper of such a heart result in blank space on painting that re-stimulates its spacial lingering charm. It is as well letting the nature lead art, the characteristic of water is naturally outpouring through ink that corresponding to the blank. Minded Landscape also indicates Buddhist value system, which is enlarge the blankness and let it breath in silence.

Only starting from the heart could Ink Painting build its root and foundation - Ya Gong’s stroke goes alongside the mind just like the quiet nature speaking without words; the heart inside heart doesn’t name itself, instead listening to the silence of universe; Minded Landscape let the mind and heart goes with ink from strokes of ink to traces of heart. The world’s vast and wilderness appeals in painting through the vigorous but elegant stroke. Led by an innocent heart, Ya Gong grabs the spirit of heaven and earth playing with ink and stroke, which is a re-occurrence of ease. Ya Gong’s Minded Landscape is the new precious ease in contemporary world.