■Chong-ray Hsiao Liang Chen Ming, known for his meticulous landscape paintings, is one of the iconic artists in the post-war Taiwan who embrace the modern movement of ink paintings by incorporating the studies of materials and phenomenology into his works. Born in 1971, Liang Chen Ming had not jumped on the bandwagon of the Taiwanese trend of abstract ink paintings in the 1960s, or the Nativist Movement in the 1970s. At a slightly more mature age, he witnessed the rise of the Age of Museums, which occurred in Taiwan during the 1980s. Despite a boom in digital and mobile devices in the 1990s, he opted for the seemingly traditional calligraphic ink as his creative tool and media. We might infer that it has something to do with his identity as one of “the second generation of mainlanders” born and bred in Gangshan, Kaohsiung, a region famed for its abundance of “military dependents’ villages.” His father, who had raised three young children on his own, and served as a mainten...