Bu Shi often works on small-scale canvases. His muted, time-worn palette recalls antique jewelry—delicate, luminous, and marked by use. The discipline of seal engraving and calligraphy, which blossomed during his formative years, remains foundational to his visual language. Precision of line and a sensitivity to rhythm shape compositions that feel both intimate and ceremonial.

Living in Italy, Bu Shi frequently draws upon primordial memories and layered cultural references. Occult objects—candles, skulls, eggs—appear as enigmatic keys that connect the present with figures of the past. Through them, the artist probes questions of identity and inheritance: those cultural structures we inhabit yet never entirely choose. Only in the face of the occult, Bu Shi suggests, can we briefly dissociate from these frameworks—or illuminate them.