Nine Fish (Jiu-yu-tu) — composition 2

Composition 2 of Huang Chun-yuan's 九魚圖 (Nine Fish) presents a second arrangement of the same auspicious subject — nine fish, signifying long-lasting surplus through the homophonic pun on 九 (nine / 久 long-lasting) and 魚 (fish / 餘 surplus). Where composition 1 establishes one disposition of the school across the picture plane, composition 2 reworks the placement, rhythm, and overlap of the figures, offering collectors a paired option within a single iconographic theme. Screen print suits this serial logic: stencils can be reused, recolored, or rearranged across a small group of related images without the painter's commitment to a single, unrepeatable brushwork solution. Huang's handling typically emphasizes silhouette and layered color rather than literal scale-by-scale rendering, treating the fish as flat shapes set against a tonal ground. The work belongs to the strand of Huang's Tsubaki Print Studio output aimed at restating traditional Chinese auspicious motifs in a contemporary print idiom — neither pastiche nor reproduction, but a translation of brush iconography into the squeegee's language.