“The River Wide” & “A Happy Hermit” Li Script and Ceramic Seal Carving by Liu Yan Dragon Soars Over the Nine Continents Sharjah Calligraphy Museum, UAE | August 2024 Flower Patterned Paper This piece belongs to the

This piece belongs to the “Chu Jian” Collection

and serenity in both heart and home

Third Prize

this work demonstrates both literary sensitivity and early calligraphic discipline

carved and impressed onto ceramic

“The River Wide” & “A Happy Hermit” Li Script and Ceramic Seal Carving by Liu Yan Dragon Soars Over the Nine Continents Sharjah Calligraphy Museum, UAE | August 2024 Flower Patterned Paper This piece belongs to theDescription: This unique work integrates traditional Li Script (Clerical Script) calligraphy with poetic translation and ceramic seal carving. Liu Yan excerpts lines from the Book of Poetry (Shijing, Spring and Autumn Period) alongside her own modern English poem, A Happy Hermit, creating a cross cultural dialogue between past and present, East and West. The seals, carved and impressed onto ceramic, include: A seal based on The River Wide A reed could