For Ren Han’s “Disaster Landscape” series on purple carbon paper, he repeatedly strikes the back of the paper with a jigsaw, resulting in a unique drawing that blends gesture with mechanical motion. This series presents chaotic scenes of natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, mudslides, and storms. This type of carbon paper is typically used in impact printers and is a precursor of the information age. Ren Han believes that the excessive production of information today disrupts our connection with the material world. He emphasizes the role of the hand in drawing, and the demanding control over the hand when using high-speed power tools for creation. He calls this practice “a dance between hand and acceleration tools”, detaching perception of time and space, akin to meditating before a screen. Subsequently, these suggestive and mechanical strokes form turbines, leading the audience into a world beyond the tangible.