This 2001 work uses the materials and processes of traditional shufa to explore the connection between embodied time and legibility. “Piled Needle Script” 针直叠字 is created with uniform strokes from an upright brush that are individually legible as good traditional brushwork. However, Fung has exploded the composition of each character and stacked individual characters upon each other, creating uneven accumulations of brushwork across the page that place a strain on legibility. Punctuating the irregular open spaces with seals, the artist calls our attention to this work as a painted collection of shapes and lines, even as flashes of recognizable text confirm its unbroken connection to shufa.

三軍總醫院

儀器⼋⽖⿂

忘情後才可能

精密地吮接各⾃為政的器官

點點滴滴 點滴點滴

調節著軀殼存在的無聊指數

袖⼿旁觀的靈魂

不屑⾁體昇華⾄最⾼的痛苦境界

只專注於天國地獄的街道圖

沉淪在昇降的遊戲規則

企圖偷帶更多的神聖物質

填補⾃然法則的空虛

厭倦⼯作的死神

例⾏公事地推銷

寫詩或是做春夢

兩者任擇其⼀

Army Hospital

Sucking octopus machine 

Only capable emotionless 

Precisely connected unconnected organ 

plop plop, drip drip, plop drip, plop drip 

Re-adjust ennui index of carcass 

Estranged soul 

despises body raised up to highest painful stage 

Just concentrating on the street map of purgatory 

Falling into the game of up or down 

Purposely smuggling in more saint material 

Filling the void of nature’s order 

Grim Reaper sick of work 

Routinely selling 

Poems or wet dreams 

Choose between the two