BU ER不二
Clumsy lines, torn paper, handwriting that argues with the picture.Horses, flowers, children, a Buddha under dust.
Selected Works
Painted on a pressure-sensitive screen. Nothing about them is smooth.
Digital Editions
Each painting is issued once, in a small signed edition. Then it is done.A limited digital edition is the painting itself, at print quality — delivered as a 300 dpi file, ready to print and frame.
Every edition is numbered, hand-signed by the artist, and accompanied by a certificate. When the edition sells out, the file is retired. No reprints, ever.
Two ways to own it: the file, or a print made, signed and posted by the studio. The $49 file price is a launch price for the first 10 editions; it returns to $78 after that.
About
Bu Er (bù èr — “not two”) is the name Jing Dawei paints under. He lives in Shenzhen. From rice paper to a pressure-sensitive screen: the tool changed, nothing of the temperament was lost.
The name carries two meanings. In Buddhism, the gate of non-duality means refusing to take sides — neither refined nor vulgar, neither new nor old. The second meaning is his own: not two, so there is no second one. A painting has to be the only one of its kind.
What he makes is hand-drawn digital painting. Every stroke is drawn by hand on the screen — no photograph underneath, no filter, no AI-generated image. The screen is simply another kind of paper.
Lines go crooked, one stroke at a time. Colour is laid down in layer after layer. What should be erased is erased; what should be added is added. Each painting carries an inscription written in his own hand — usually a joke, sometimes a prayer — and a vermilion seal stamped where the eye least expects it.
He is not interested in decoration. A painting has to say one thing, and it has to say it without disguise.
Contact
For editions, originals, commissions, exhibitions or press:
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