{"title":"Marcie Woodard","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarcie Woodard is a sinologist and artist, and the founder of Qidie Studio, a Birmingham-based practice devoted to hand-painted Chinoiserie. Working primarily in silk using gouache and Chinese watercolor, she creates original diptychs that draw on the centuries-long European tradition of reimagining Chinese aesthetics, a dialogue between East and West with roots in the 18th century. Her practice is grounded in a scholarly background in Sinology, with studies at Peking University, China and the University of Würzburg, Germany, yet her work is defined above all by its handmade intimacy: botanical motifs, gilded silhouettes, and the quiet luxury of the painted panel.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"butterflies-lingering-over-the-flowers-yin","title":"\"Butterflies Lingering Over the Flowers\" (yin)","description":"\u003cp\u003e9 x 11 artwork framed to 12 x 16\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGouache on silk paper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrushed gold frame with white mat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiptych with yin \u0026amp; yang panels (sold individually)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe title arrived before the brush touched the surface. In the Chinese poetic tradition, butterflies do not visit flowers, they linger. That distinction is not incidental. It carries an entire philosophical register: the relationship between wing and petal is ancient, unhurried, and entirely without need of explanation. 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Blue, carried west on Qing export porcelain, became the color through which Europe first learned to see China. Together they defined a dynasty. Together they define this diptych. The peonies are rendered in a blue that has no precedent in nature. True blue peonies cannot occur, the genetic pigments required are simply absent from the flower. They were painted here anyway. The Chinoiserie tradition has always been an act of imagination. 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It was a feeling, a carefully constructed vision of China's natural world, filtered through centuries of Sino-European decorative exchange and rendered onto silk, porcelain, and architectural interiors with a precision that had everything to do with longing and nothing to do with accuracy. 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In the Chinoiserie tradition, butterflies carried the soul between worlds, appearing on painted surfaces across three centuries of European decorative imagination. Nine Souls in Flight holds both. Nine distinct butterflies on emerald silk, no flowers, no branches, nothing but wing and ground. Each one is different. 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