Calligraphy

  • Calligraphy for Snail Mail Art Club

    Here are some of the calligraphy pieces I created as part of my monthly calligraphy subscription, Snail Mail Art Club. It’s my hope that this analog art subscription offers a tactile respite from our increasingly digital world. Every month (beginning February 2026), I send…


  • Riding Winds, Breaking Waves

    A calligraphy commission “乘風破浪” (literal translation: riding the winds, breaking through waves) for lovely couple, braving the inevitable storms in life and coming out stronger on the other side.


  • Calligraphic tattoo designs

    A few tattoo designs I created in the summer of 2025, which ended up being used in a flash tattoo collaboration with my tattoo artist friend, Jaz.


  • JOY 樂 stickers

    A while back, I posted in my Instagram stories a sketch of me experimenting with writing 樂 (joy in Chinese) in a free-flowing way, where I held the brush loosely and let the wind carry me. I asked what people thought of it, and…


  • Flow, Desire, Tranquility

    Calligraphy pieces I created in advance of Greenpoint Open Studios: 行雲流水 (Flow), which literally translates into “moving clouds, flowing water”, is phrase with special meaning to me. It’s a Chinese idiom describing movement or artistry so natural and unforced that it seems to arise…


  • Candle calligraphy

    For our annual Handmade Secret Santa/Galentine’s Day gift, I painted a candle that read 知足常樂, meaning “knowing contentment brings constant joy”. It is a Buddhist phrase about recognizing when you have enough, and finding joy in that recognition. The calligraphy reads right to left:知…


  • Spring couplet

    This spring couplet (春聯) was written as a present to my parents for Chinese New Year. The two lines read: 春來芳草依舊綠 — Spring comes, tender grasses return to green時到梅花自然紅 — Season arrives, plum blossoms naturally redden The two lines are written in 對仗 (parallelism…