September Issue, 2025

CREDITS

Editor-in-Chiefs: Zihong Zhang, Seoyoung Lim

Editors: Khunsha Dar, Sharon Yanling Feng, Yufan Zheng

Layout Designer: Hoi Ching Leung



A LETTER FROM THE EDITORIAL TEAM

Editor's Note

Yishan JiYishan Jiangan

Seoyoung Lim & Zihong Zhang



ART CRITICISM

Mika Tajima, Penumbra, 2024. Mixed materials, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong. Courtesy of Pace Gallery. Photo credit: Cow Lau.


The Emergence of Order: Exploring Synesthesia in Art

Yishan JiYishan Jiangan

Yishan Jiang


RESEARCH ARTICLES

Bow Porcelain Factory, Dish, 1760-65. Underglaze Soft-Paste Porcelain, d. 21.9cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. The Hans Syz Collection, Gift of Stephan B. Syz and John D. Syz, 1995.

British National Power and Chinese-inspired Art: A Comparative Analysis of Porcelain Produced in 18th and 19th Century Britain

Yishan JiYishan Jiangan

Hoi Shan Kwong

Camille Pissarro, Le Verger à Maubuisson (The Orchard at Maubuisson, Pontoise)1876. Oil on Canvas, 42.5 x 50.2 cm. Private Collection, London.

Peasant Labor and the Rural Land: An Ecological Reading of Millet and Pissarro’s Peasant Paintings

Yishan JiYishan Jiangan

Zihong Zhang

Yishan JiYishan Jiangan

Dimensions of Blood Exposure in Female Artists’ Work

Yishan JiYishan Jiangan

Xiaohan Ning

Yishan JiYishan Jiangan

Cui Xiuwen, Existential Emptiness No.1, 2009. C-print, 117 x 400 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Eli Klein Gallery ©Cui Xiuwen.

Reconsidering the Female Body in Cui Xiuwen’s Existential Emptiness

Yishan JiYishan Jiangan

Haoqi Lin

Yishan JiYish

Khunsha Dar, Green Chili, 2025

The Residue of Touch and Manipulation

Yishan JiYishan Jiangan

Khunsha Dar

Yishan JiYish