I am developing a work centered on Hanshan and Shide, figures that art historian TSUJI Nobuo positioned within a “lineage of eccentricity,” drawing on East Asian Zen thought. The two are regarded as reincarnations of the bodhisattvas Samantabhadra and Manjushri, living lives detached from worldly conventions and laughing at the mundane world. By depicting their eccentric behavior in meticulous detail, I hope to explore the state of transcendence they embody.