Pen Walking is a meditative series in which Shi Jin-Hua exhausts the full length of one or more pencils, allowing the act of drawing to become both ritual and record. As each pencil wears down, its shavings are collected and affixed to the paper alongside the drawn line—material evidence of time, labor, and eventual depletion.

The shavings, like relics of a body after death, speak to what remains once function is spent. The traces of the pencil strokes mirror the actions of a person's life, and the depletion of the pencil reflects the inevitable fate of the mortal body. Contemplating one’s life journey, one cannot help but sigh at the existential emptiness:

“No matter what you do, in the end—it all comes down to this.”