Hideyuki Sobue, ‘on the beach’, Japanese sumi ink & acrylic on canvas, 2010. Using Japanese sumi ink & acrylic, the brush hatching technique I’ve invented and developed inspired by “disegno” the method Florentine School established in early Renaissance as well as the latest neurological study, I explore by depicting a series of English ordinary rural life the potential dialogue between image and letter, East and West, and seek for the narrative in post-Metanarrative epoch.