Rural window ritual · folded axis
Red Gate Archive
vermilion on rice paper

single sheet / continuous silhouette

One sheet remembers.

Vermilion paper is cut into mirrored openings, every bridge left connected so the whole festival image reads from across the doorway.

Positive and negative shapes interlock; no motif floats alone, no edge softens into wash.
SPRING CUT AS ONE

bilateral symmetry from the folded origin

Scissor-sharp edge

Flat silhouettes, crisp borders, no painterly blur or detached ornament.

Rice-paper ground

Cream stays visible through every cut, making the red sheet feel ceremonial.

Yangzhou sparks

Gold and peacock blue appear only as festival accents around vermilion.

朱红 金黄 孔雀蓝