Despite its elegant appearance, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains is in fact an installation created to expose the increasingly serious problem of air pollution. Working with the Institute of Environmental Health at National Taiwan University, artist Ting-Tong Chang turned particles found in our everyday air into ink for painting, as a means of physically presenting the huge social and personal impacts that air pollution can have. Particulate matter (PM), the carcinogenic particles suspended in the air that we breathe, thus become the core pigments of an ink, which is then transformed into images on the canvas through the movements of the painter. As such, this project represents the transformation of matter between different forms — in the same way that the white spaces within a painting can be regarded not only as ‘empty’ or ‘blank’, but can also be viewed as qi-like metaphors for ‘air’, ‘emptiness’, and ‘air pollution’. The work borrows its title from the classic work Pure and Remote View of Streams of Mountains by the Southern Song landscape painter Gui Xia, likening air pollution to the enveloping mist portrayed in the original. At the beginning of the exhibition, new iterations echoing Xia were produced by Chang using his pollution-inks that were then displayed on paper screen panels inside the workshop. However, as the workshop progressed, these initial works were gradually replaced by those of the participants. Through participatory creation, the artist highlights the politics of the body - the relationship between people and the environment, shaped by economic production and governmental policy. Project participants｜ Wan-Chen Lee／assistant professor, Institute of Environmental Health, National Taiwan University Chuan-Heng King／art therapist certified by Taiwan Art Therapy Association Yi-Chun Lai／project manager Tubie Tsai／video photographer