We will explore potential alchemical mixtures from the repertoires of artists Fan Wu and Serena Lee, including qigong, taijiquan, parable, calligraphy, poetry, and somatic translation. We will begin by grounding ourselves in space and in the presence of our bodies. We will read and counter-read Fenollosa’s “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry” by pushing at the limits of alphabetical languages that are traditionally considered non-pictographic. We will write between image and word, wet and dry, light and shadow—sensing how language appears through what it omits—the negative space it’s bound to speaking. We will follow Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Du Fu, Ikkyu—and many others in the lineage of the supple phenomenology of attention—and compose using the density of the ordinary as an ever-replenishing raw material. Presented in collaboration with Dancemakers, this workshop is part of a composite program that bookends the 39th edition of Images Festival featuring Serena Lee and Fan Wu in their years-long conversation.