The title honors Qu Yuan, the ancient poet whose death was remembered in a family ritual from Zao's childhood. Instead of illustrating the poet's story, Zao built a submerged blue space in which signs rise, fall, and gather around a dark vertical current.
The painting shows how cultural memory could survive inside abstraction without becoming a quotation of tradition. The forms resemble writing but refuse to be read. Their meaning is carried by spacing, density, and the sensation of watery depth.
