Li Bai’s The Upper Terrace (Shangyangtai  Tie) is the only surviving calligraphic work by the great Tang poet—majestic,  unrestrained, and charged with a sweeping vitality.    Reimagining this ancient masterpiece, Stone Chun Shi translates its  spiritual cadence into the language of contemporary painting through his  signature style, “Stonecubes.” What appears up close as a constellation of  chromatic fragments unfolds at a distance into a unified field of movement  and energy, where abstraction meets figuration, and East converses with  West.    Completed over the course of four months, the work represents a deep  meditation on time, spirit, and tradition. By “painting calligraphy,” Stone  extends Li Bai’s boundless sense of freedom, awakening the pulse of a culture  that has traveled thirteen centuries.    The rebirth of The Upper Terrace is more than a recreation, it is a  cross-temporal resonance, where the vitality of the Tang dynasty finds new  life in the language of global contemporary art.