Back to Heze in the Dream- B

The second panel in a paired series, this print returns to Heze — a city in Shandong Province historically celebrated for its peony cultivation — as a site reconstructed through dream logic rather than direct observation. Chen Long's surrealist method transforms remembered geography into layered, sometimes disorienting pictorial space. Peony motifs or the flat agricultural plains surrounding Heze may structure the composition, rendered with the dense, saturated color fields typical of his reduction woodblock technique. As a "B" variant, this print likely diverges from its companion through tonal or compositional inversion, a strategy that allows Chen to examine the instability of place-memory from multiple angles within a single series.