Today, ink painting faces practical difficulties both domestically, from the present political situation, and internationally, from the spread of Western culture. Modern Western art is king around the globe, and Taiwan's ink painters, between a rock and a hard place, can only look on with dismay as the space for ink painting continues to shrink.
今天的水墨處境，內有政治現實干擾，外受西方強勢文化壓境的影響，西方現代藝術當道；身處夾縫，畫家心頭自有一番冷暖滋味。