Building upon and challenging traditional practice, Fung Ming Chip’s contemporary shufa (Chinese calligraphy) has ventured into innovative territories by incorporating elements such as musical notation, numbers, and mechanical processes. Fung has invented over one hundred of these “scripts”, each uniquely embodying a feeling or conveying the passage of time.

Beginning in the 1990s, Fung began to experiment with processes that integrate time in shufa in new ways. He builds layers of texture using washes of ink and water; for example, in this piece, Fung started by writing characters in dark ink and then painted over them in a similar shade of gray. Though these processes break from the conventions that define traditional shufa practice, Fung’s works explore how layers of creation can be encoded into a flat surface, making the chronological sequence of Fung’s practice apparent to viewers.

冯明秋在挑战传统实践的同时，将当代书法推向创新领域，在其中融入音乐符号、数字和机械工艺等元素。冯明秋发明了数百种这样的“字体”，每一种都独特地表现一种感觉或者传达了时间的流逝。

从1990年代开始，冯明秋开始尝试通过新的方式将时间融入书法中。他通过多次叠加水墨和水来建构层次；例如，在这幅作品中，冯明秋先用深色墨书写字体，再以类似的深灰色叠加。虽然这些过程打破了传统书法的惯例，但冯明秋的作品探索了如何将多层次的创作印记在静态的纸张表面，使观众能够清晰感知艺术家创作的时序。