This exercise of open-door painting only confirms the idea of painting as transformation, an alchemy in action, the transmission of the breath of life.

The meaning of this action, so common among oriental painters, has not lost its validity, but is rather revived in each staging.

In this regard, Li Chi Pang believes that there is no difference between traditional and contemporary Chinese painting, but rather that they are parts of a whole. The master states that “tradition is like a root that develops towards the light and the flower would be contemporary.”

In this way, the passage between the classical and the contemporary would not be abrupt, as part of watertight compartments, but rather a continuity that flows, transforms and is enriched over time.

It has been a privilege to learn about the Eastern pictorial tradition through Li Chi Pang and thus make his art endure through this system.