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158,760 Pinpricks

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On a horizontally oriented sheet of white paper with rough edges and a textured surface, geological forms appear in low relief. Fashioned from thousands of tiny holes rather than ink or color, the hills or cliff fill the page, bordered at the top by a sliver of blank sky and at the bottom by a narrow strip of beach and water.
Department of Asian Art Artist Fu Xiaotong (2023-2025) sold; [through Alisan Fine Arts NY]; to the Harvard Art Museums 2025. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Purchase through the generosity of Christina Marcove
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Title: 158,760 Pinpricks
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On a horizontally oriented sheet of white paper with rough edges and a textured surface, geological forms appear in low relief.
Fashioned from thousands of tiny holes rather than ink or color, the hills or cliff fill the page, bordered at the top by a sliver of blank sky and at the bottom by a narrow strip of beach and water.

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