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Water calligraphy tricycle
Water calligraphy is a poetic activity that you can observe in many Chinese parks: Artists use a large brush to write Chinese characters using water instead of ink. Minutes after the characters are written, they disappear. Media Artist Nicholas Hanna built a tricycle that writes Chinese characters on the ground as it moves.
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Dishu: Ground Calligraphy in China
Thousands of anonymous street calligraphers operate daily in Chinese parks and streets. The endlessly tracing texts composed of «hanzi» signs slowly disappear as water evaporates. This phenomenon, called “dishu”. Dishu: Ground Calligraphy in China is the first survey on contemporary calligraphic practices in Chinese public spaces, documented during the summer of 2011 in Beijing, Shanghai…
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What is Chinese Calligraphy? Pt 1: History | ARTiculations
This video discusses the connections between the visual and linguistic traditions in chinese calligraphy. It also introduces earth writing called Dishu, a form of impermanent street calligraphy that inspired Fourneau’s Waterlight Graffiti. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Ydp-Tm0N_e4
