Narrative Scroll: Contemporary Reincarnation presents how artist Huang Wan-Ling builds a cross-temporal artistic narrative by grounding her practice in traditional techniques while infusing them with contemporary perspectives. As a creator deeply engaged in material research and cultural excavation, Huang traverses between ink painting, printmaking, and digital imagery. Her reinterpretations of objects and symbols transform historical traditions into probing explorations of modern society, composing a visual scroll charged with both intensity and depth. Huang’s artistic language revolves around the notions of “the reincarnation of tradition” and “the reconstruction of the contemporary.” Since her student years, she has distinguished herself with the Gongyangren series, monumental paper works combining ink and fluorescent pigments. These dramatic compositions and vibrant hues reveal the diversity of bodily symbols and spiritual traits of youth, while exposing the multiplicity of individual identity within contexts of ethnicity, cultural representation, and social structure. Her acute cultural sensibility delves into the historical, natural, and social textures of Taiwan, weaving them into her works to reflect the island’s complexity and diversity. For instance, in the Meisho-e series, Huang reexamines the landscape polls of the Japanese colonial period, merging this historical event with a contemporary gaze. Through this approach, she investigates the symbolic meanings and cultural memories inscribed in Taiwan’s landscapes across different eras, revealing the interactive effects of colonial culture and society. In her hands, the landscape becomes a cultural vessel that carries dialogues between history and the future. Beyond visual reinvention, her works also echo a philosophical dimension. Drawing on Henri Bergson’s conception of memory as “a continuous flux, simultaneously merging with the present and intimately bound to the past, like a river meandering through time,” Huang employs panoramic, fisheye, and wide-angle perspectives. Through digital collages and fluorescent stippling, she captures traces of time and cultural shifts within landscapes, transforming them into dynamic memory fields. These works explore how memory, in processes of cultural rebirth, forges links between personal emotions and collective identity, revealing the profound relationship between landscape, time, and space. Ultimately, Narrative Scroll: Contemporary Reincarnation highlights Huang Wan-Ling’s practice of using painting as a vital medium for observing cultural currents and the flow of human emotions. Her canvases not only serve as vessels of visual storytelling but also as platforms for dialogue between tradition and contemporaneity. By combining refined traditional craftsmanship with concepts of technological innovation, Huang has developed a unique artistic language that bridges the past and present. In doing so, she opens new narrative horizons for contemporary Taiwanese art while underscoring Taiwan’s rich historical and cultural depth.