Landscape Sketch (115) -SB18: 34

^{A long time has slipped by like the river, over which the masts and the electric pole jutting out look like coordinates marked with antiquity and modernity, respectively. The sandbar in the middle of the river is also a metaphor for time—fine grains of sand accumulating and then dissolving in the racing currents of the endless river. Reclining on the opposite shore, the Guanyin Mountain is the heavier and deeper sediment of time; the ridge of the mountain against the sky is depicted with twists and turns from hundreds of thousands of years…. What Chen Cheng-po delineates gently on his sketchbook is a narrative of time as well as a riverscape of Tamsui.}

By Emery Chen