Simple sophistication

Guang has added a drawing to the show that he made of Huang's back as he was sketching in his native Hunan province in 2004.

"I would have asked him to come to see my exhibition and would have looked forward to his criticism and been inspired," Guang says. "But now that is impossible. He can't make it. He has become a cloud, just as he once said, for me to look up and think of him."

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