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04 / CALLIGRAPHY · CLERICAL SCRIPT / 2025
Clerical Script Scroll · Su Shi
The upper stanza of Su Shi’s “Ruins of the Huanxi Sand” in clerical script — characters stretched out, the ink on the moist side.
NOTES
Studio notes
I treated Su Shi’s ci as a slow regular script: looser than kaishu, steadier than cursive, every character holding both slack and tension.
For three-dot water radicals I tried to vary the weight of each stroke, so that writing a great deal of clerical script does not turn into a thousand identical characters.
This piece was later shown in the school art exhibition — the first clerical script of mine to hang on a wall.
“The taste of the world is plain joy” — I kept that line in mind the whole way.
— Gao Xinuo · studio note