Fleeting 04 (Blue Birds, Wú Tí 24°22'51.5"N 124°07'58.0"E)

Kauppila uses all traditional Chinese materials when creating her paintings. Works are done using traditional Chinese watercolor and Chinese inks, on painting-specific rice paper purchased in both Mainland China and in Hong Kong.

Once paintings are completed, they go through the traditional Chinese mounting process of using rice adhesive and a variety of traditional smoothing brushes to back the paintings onto a stronger rice paper base.

Kauppila works with a local Hong Kong family-operated Chinese mounting business to finalize and prepare the works before they are ready for framing, scanning, and printing.

Dimensions: W108 x H74 cm