Anyue — Disappearing No. 2

Title:​ Anyue — Disappearing No. 2 — Le Venezie International Watercolor Festival Overall Third Prize ($500)

Artist:​ Piao Ti (Zhuo Chunyan) (China)

Dimensions:​ 56 × 38 cm

Year:​ 2024

Medium:​ Transparent Watercolor

About the Artist

Piao Ti, whose given name is Zhuo Chunyan, is a Chinese watercolor artist whose practice is rooted in a profound concern for cultural memory and the fragility of place. The Anyue — Disappearing series takes its name from Anyue County in Sichuan Province, long renowned for its extraordinary concentration of Tang and Song dynasty stone Buddhist sculptures — a heritage that, like so much of China's material past, faces the quiet erosion of time, neglect, and modernization. Through the translucent, dissolving qualities of transparent watercolor, Piao Ti finds the perfect medium for her subject: a technique that itself enacts the very process of disappearance, allowing form to emerge and recede within the same gesture. Her work stands as both an artistic document and an elegy — a tender, luminous act of witness to what is slowly passing from the world.