My Vietnamese friend Thuy Tien once bought a piece of calligraphy in a park—a character meant to be “zhi” (will)—and hung it in her bedroom for years. When I visited, I noticed it actually says “qing” (love). She then asked me to write a new “zhi” for her, and I also wrote her a piece of “Huan Zhu Ge Ge” (My Fair Princess).

Wanwen zhang(b.1994) grew up in Mount. Emei, a mountain of fascinating nature, Buddhism and Taoism culture and flavorful cuisine in Szechuan province of China. Currently Zhang lives and works as a multidisciplinary artist between Frankfurt am Main, Germany and her hometown. From 2013 to 2017, she studied traditional Chinese painting in Beijing, and from 2022 to 2024, studied fine art and painting with Monika Baer in Städelshule.