In “The Immortal Life”, a new collection of contemporary Chinese inks by Shan Sa, ancient Chinese thought is brought into the avant-garde. Taking Taoist ideas of the celestial realm as her muse, the artist creates compositions that are at once bold and subtle, imaginative and realistic, beautiful and profound. With flashing brushstrokes and sweeping washes, “The Immortal Life” compositions form glimpses of the beauty and hedonism of the immortal world and highlight the transience of our own mortal paths. A rebel to her formal “literati” education, Shan Sa has continually pushed the boundaries of her traditional creative disciplines, to find new forms of expression that have gained widespread acclaim on an international stage.