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Abstract landscape photographs fill the pages within Xiaoyi Chen’s publication Koan. The black and white photo-etched images explore the photographers own philosophical approach to simplification and abstraction, emphasizing the importance of intuition over reason the images reflect spiritual ideas where the symbolic is confronted and challenged through the photographic medium and replaced with abstract minimalism attempting to explore a world where language and words are not the primary from of communication. Here Xiaoyi Chen’s images beautifully attempt and exploring the boundaries of language through abstract minimalism, bringing forth atmospheric worlds and meanings which are kin to that of traditional Chinese poetry and Ink Paintings. This Publication includes an afterword by photographer available in both English and Chinese.