ZHANG Hua fixes his gaze on mushrooms, lichens, and shrubs in the wild, sensing the vitality of mountain countryside and folk life from their varied, lifeless forms. This brings to mind Li Guangxiu, a late Qing Dynasty folk craftsman, who sculpted five hundred arhats at Qiongzhu Temple in Kunming — equally varied and vivid, just like the crowd gathering at the market at the foot of the mountain.

ZHANG Hua carries on traditional metalworking techniques from ancient post roads — cutting, hammering, firing, forging — so that copper sheets reveal the gilded texture of time itself. Small in scale, his pieces can be assembled and folded as modular components, suspended in space like hanging fish ornaments. This approach transforms sculpture from a single object into a serialized cluster of images, granting the work the freedom to contract, expand, and flow.