Liu Guosong’s Moon Series was inspired by images of Earth taken by astronauts on Apollo 8. Daybreak incorporates an actual image as a collage. These two works were made with the “Guosong paper” the artist invented by attaching to a paper’s surface the thick, long plant fibers that are thrown away as waste in the papermaking process. After painting on both sides of it, he peeled off the long fibers, revealing the white parts underneath.

© The Liu Kuo-sung Archives, photo: Maurice Aeschimann, Geneva