Calligraphy’s note: Broadly speaking, all philosophical and literary texts are forms of autobiography, just as painting is but a self-portrait. This Written Self contains no image of the artist, only a succession of names from past to present, East to West—figures without whom the artist would not exist as he does today.
The four sheets record the same content, but the brush accelerates in rhythm and pressure: from standard script to running script, then to cursive and finally wild cursive. Thus, an image of the “self” gradually emerges from writing itself.

藝術家筆記：
可以寬泛地說，所有的哲學、文學文本皆是自傳，而繪畫創作不過是自畫像而已。但我這件的自寫像並沒有我，只是道說出古今中西一連串的人名...。沒有這些典範人物，我就不可能成為現在的樣子。
四張書寫的內容一致，隨著逐漸加速及加壓的節奏，由楷到行，繼而行到草並狂草，一個或許可以名之曰〔我〕的形象得以漸次朗顯。