"Dawn Mist Clearing, Glacier National Park" - Ink on Rice Paper Original

Original ink and color painting by Ming Ge.

Edition of: 1

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Inscription：美国冰川国家公园位于美加交界蒙他拿州，建园至今已百十年，占地巨大，动植物物种极多，虽昔日冰川大多消融或缩小，其秀美山峦，湖泊，溪流，飞瀑仍令人沉醉，流连忘返。几年前顺道小游，深为震撼。今夏重游九日仍恨为时过短。还家数月时常回味其景。近日偷闲援笔草草塗此晓雾初开图，写众多冰川区之景。二零二一年十月记。

Titled: “Picture of Dawn Mist Clearing”

Glacier National Park lies in Montana, straddling the border between the United States and Canada. Now over a century old, the park is vast in size and remarkable in the diversity of its plant and animal life. Though most of its glaciers have melted or receded over the years, its beautiful mountains, lakes, streams, and waterfalls continue to enchant all who visit, making it difficult to leave.

I passed through for a brief visit several years ago and was deeply moved. This past summer I returned for nine days — and still felt it was far too short. Back home these past months, I have found myself frequently returning to those scenes in memory.

Recently, stealing a moment of leisure, I took up my brush and loosely painted this picture of dawn mist clearing, capturing the scenery of the many glacial areas within the park.

Recorded in October 2021.

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The mist is the painting's true subject. It moves through the composition in broad, luminous washes of pale green and gray, swallowing the forest at mid-ground and separating the warm ochre peaks above from the still water below. A waterfall descends through the center, white and unhurried, the one fixed point in a landscape otherwise in motion.

In the foreground, gnarled trees lean with easy confidence, their twisted trunks rendered in long, sinuous lines while dark conifers rise in dense, layered strokes behind them. Near and far, revealed and concealed — the mist decides what the eye is allowed to see.

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云雾才是此画真正的主角。淡绿与灰色的大片润泽笔墨在画面中流动，将中景林木吞没，将暖赭色山峰与下方静水分隔。瀑布从画面中央垂落，白练悠然，是这片流动山水中唯一的定点。

前景虬树从容倚立，盘曲的树干以长线蜿蜒勾就，深色针叶林在其身后以浓密层叠的笔触耸立。近与远，显与隐——由云雾决定，眼睛被允许看见什么。