An empty floating landscape emerges

a zen thought: "The snow settles on the shoots of the reeds on the shore; it is difficult to see where these begin and where those end." It is difficult to see a difference between the white of the sugarcane flower and that of the snow that covers it. (…) That snowy river landscape is a landscape of absence. Nothing is imposed. Nothing is delimited with respect to the rest. Everything seems to regress to in-differentiation. (...) The matte white of the background is uniformly light. The figures seem to be there only to highlight the white of the paper. Earth and sky, mountain and water flow into each other. An empty floating landscape emerges. In the paintings, furthermore, the light has no direction. And it covers the landscape with an atmosphere of absence. The sky and the earth are uniformly clear. It is not obvious where the earth ends and the sky begins; where the light ends and where the darkness begins. Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East, Byung-Chul Han.