Recently, Expressive Experiment has entered a new synthetic phase. The work draws inspiration from traditional Chinese fluid aesthetics—particularly floating lacquer and lacquer fan techniques—while introducing digital tools for color rendering. Exceptionally vivid hues, difficult to mix or fix in physical media, are now achieved and precisely controlled through digital color grading (e.g., Photoshop). This gave rise to the Liaozhai in Xieyi series.

The series takes as its textual source Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, a 17th-century Qing dynasty collection of supernatural short stories, and revisits its surreal imaginary through the language of abstraction. The material traces of the handmade converge with the virtual saturation of electronic color, constituting a new visual lexicon: at once painterly and graphic, material and data.

With this, the practice has shifted from breaking the physical boundaries of painting toward a broader inquiry into the contemporary expression of “painterliness” across an expanded spectrum of media.