The Painting

Experience my interpretation of Zhang Yan's painting.

'Zhang Yan drank in the white world around her. "Mr. Luo, actually did do a painting like this once. From a distance, it was a white sheet of paper, almost entirely blank, but closer in you would see fine reeds in the lower left corner, and in the upper right the traces of a disappearing bird. In the blank center, two infinitesimally tiny people. . . . It's the painting I'm proudest of." 

"I can imagine it. It must be magnificent. . . . "'

— Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest