“Speaking nonsense may also bring us closer to discovering the truth.” This is the doodle art of Hou Chun-ming.

Those who pay close attention to contemporary art will definitely be shocked by the maniacal, violent style of Hou Chun-ming’s carved prints.

He excels in merging lustful taboo with the aesthetics of folk religion and shocking us with his challenges of visual norms and moral standards.

However, the power of this seemingly provocative image of a black monstrosity is actually the culmination of Hou Chun-ming’s doodles on which he had worked for prolonged periods of time. Hou Chunming’s doodles echo the messages of modern society, but most of them are the result of his independent practices throughout everyday life. His mandala doodles are not just quiet meditation, but leap and shout with a vitality verging on insanity, thus evoking images from deep within his subconscious and inspiring a sort of organic creativity.

These mandala meditation doodles have thus morphed into Hou Chun-ming’s uniquely wild yet conservative style, a style that summons the dark beast within us all. As Hou Chun-ming has once said, “Allow yourself some time to doodle every day. Become a lunatic in the world of graphic images so that you can live life in the real world to the fullest with as much normality as you can possible achieve.”