Calligraphy Should Be Used as Graphics

A wall that uses calligraphy as a pattern. One or two characters are enlarged to fill the entire wall, retaining the dry brushstrokes and ink nuances, but the color is changed to a single saturated hue or made into a cutout. The legibility of the characters is less important than their form, and they can even be partially obscured by furniture. Avoid: writing an entire poem or a long passage, replacing handwritten brushwork with computer-generated Kai-style fonts, shrinking the characters to hang as a framed calligraphy piece, or adding a wooden frame and artist's seal to create a traditional Chinese hanging scroll.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一面把書法當成圖案的牆。一到兩個字被放大到佔滿整面牆,筆畫的飛白與墨韻被保留,但顏色改成單一的飽和色或做成鏤空。字的可讀性沒有它的造型重要,甚至可以被家具局部遮住。避免:寫一整首詩或一段長文、用電腦標楷體取代手寫的筆意、把字縮小掛成一幅字畫、加上木框與落款做成傳統的中堂。