The use of monochromatic fluorescent pink paint for this canvas - titled "Sexy" - signals that the first hidden clue to reading the gnomic script lies in the flagrant PINK colour itself. Tian Wei explores the plasticity of the written word and its associated fluidity of meaning. Using a high definition 3D printer the surface of the canvas is over-printed in precisely patterned swirls of tiny text, which after repeated passes makes the script letters stand up from the canvas itself. This English text when read following the sinuously curving lines, is discovered to be an unfolding definition and description of the various meanings and usages of the word <>. Tian, who studied advanced engineering at university, programmed the software that prints these precise patterns based on the evolving shapes of the Chinese T'ai Chi pattern. This reiterative print process takes many days to complete and much longer time is needed before the print is perfectly dry. By contrast, the thick daubs of paint applied using a large Chinese calligraphic brush are set down in one concentrated series of fluid strokes. The four English letters S, E, X and Y are created using the same learnt gestures as would be used to write Chinese characters using a brush. The artist is known for his fine calligraphic hand. It is this inherited stylistic habits of Chinese brush writing that renders the English letters so difficult to read to anyone expecting conventional English orthography. Many Chinese viewers try to read the marks as fluid "running style" Chinese characters and are similarly frustrated. Thus, Tian Wei's teasing works court confusion by exploiting the differences between execution and expectation. He demonstrates how misunderstandings arise when familiar things are rendered in unfamiliar ways. These multi-layered works signal the way false dichotomies can arise between competing world views, while simultaneously suggesting the possibility of an actual convergence between eastern and western sensibilities even though separated by radically different habits of language and patterns of thinking.