Knife's edge

Lin Baojun creates beautiful paintings of scenery, but he doesn't use a brush, instead conjuring up the bucolic images with a blade, an innovative technique that has become a special skill of the artists in Dunhua, Jilin province. He Na and Han Junhong report.

Metal and rubber scrapers, several pieces of foam material, woodchips, two rolls of gauze, various brushes of different size ... whenever Lin Baojun opens his tool box people are baffled by what he does for a living.

Lin is used to the curiosity, and without a word, he will sit down and demonstrate how he uses the tools of his trade. In his hands, these everyday materials come alive, and in a few moments he has created a picture of a rural scene.