Asian Kanji - Connection by Seiran Chiba

One character, one breath, and no way to take any of it back.

Kanji – Connection is a contemporary calligraphy by Seiran Chiba, framed in black. Calligraphers devote years to writing a single character like this one, since the brush records every hesitation and a stroke cannot be corrected. The aim is meaning and energy together on the page. Here heavy black strokes swing across white paper, thick at the turns and dry and feathered where the brush lifts. Small flecks of ink lie where they fell, and a red seal sits at lower left. Framed, it is 39 inches wide and 31 high.

Few things said in a single word have taken this much practice.