Grasses at the edge of the path.
Picquier Editions| N° d'inventaire | 26954 |
| Format | 21.5 x 28 |
| Détails | 178 p., numerous color illustrations, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Arles, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782809716016 |
Wild herbs grow without anyone's permission in the Provençal scrubland, unpretentious and with inexhaustible vitality. They are called "simples" and their medicinal properties restore harmony to body and soul.
These wandering and beneficial herbs, the calligrapher and painter Ji Dahai goes to meet them every day, attentive to what they have to teach him, he looks at them and paints them, with wonder and poetry, in the Chinese tradition of brush and ink.
I live in an old sheepfold in the countryside. The light of Provence is so special, its clarity, its transparency, its reverberation, that every day I appreciate the sunrise and, facing the sunset, I thank life for having brought me here and given me the opportunity to step aside before nature, before these simple and humble herbs.
Ji Dahai was born in China in 1968. From a young age, he began practicing calligraphy and learned painting from the great Chinese masters. After studying French at Beiwai University, he set off on the road to Compostela and settled in Arles, where he now teaches calligraphy.
Wild herbs grow without anyone's permission in the Provençal scrubland, unpretentious and with inexhaustible vitality. They are called "simples" and their medicinal properties restore harmony to body and soul.
These wandering and beneficial herbs, the calligrapher and painter Ji Dahai goes to meet them every day, attentive to what they have to teach him, he looks at them and paints them, with wonder and poetry, in the Chinese tradition of brush and ink.
I live in an old sheepfold in the countryside. The light of Provence is so special, its clarity, its transparency, its reverberation, that every day I appreciate the sunrise and, facing the sunset, I thank life for having brought me here and given me the opportunity to step aside before nature, before these simple and humble herbs.
Ji Dahai was born in China in 1968. From a young age, he began practicing calligraphy and learned painting from the great Chinese masters. After studying French at Beiwai University, he set off on the road to Compostela and settled in Arles, where he now teaches calligraphy.