Issue 01 · 2026 A portfolio in five pieces EN / 中文

— Portfolio · 作品集

QutaiBai 柒　白

Five pieces, five atmospheres — a small collection of moments, painted in different registers.

Artist QutaiBai · 柒白

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Pieces 05 · five

— Index · 目录

Five pieces, read in any order.

N°01 Floor画家的下午 A red beret, a runaway brush, a small storm of pigment on the wooden floor. → p. 01
N°02 The DevilXV · Yukino Stuki Tarot card XV, set in a purple-black universe with neon pink trajectories. → p. 02
N°03 Aria宇宙二重奏 * One figure in snow, one in star-track. Two characters light up the same sky, differently. → p. 03
N°04 Seasons四季之窗 · Mamehinata Four windows, four seasons — green, blue, red, white. The girl at the center remembers them all. → p. 04
N°05 Framed框中的她 Silver hair, round glasses, a black dress, and a golden frame that looks back at us. → p. 05

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— N°01 · Floor

Floor画家的下午

Medium · Oil on Wood · 数字油画

一支失控的笔，把颜料搅成了一场小型风暴。

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The painter's afternoon begins with a single act of surrender — letting the brush do what it wants, where it wants. On the wooden floor, three colours have escaped: a red that came from a beret, a yellow that bounced off the sun, and a blue that has been waiting all morning to make this mess.

She is small, hunched, intent. The beret is the only thing on her that isn't covered in pigment. Everything else — overalls, hands, the hem of her dress — is now a record of what the brush decided to do while no one was watching.

— 创作笔记这是一张关于「创作行为本身」的画。画中的人在画，画外的我们看见画。这三层里，最真实的是颜料失控的那一层。

The floor is honest. It catches the spillage, the drip, the little accidents that no composition would ever allow. We look at the painting and feel like we've walked in at the wrong moment — the moment when an artwork is still being made, before it has been decided to be art.

And yet here it is. Decided. Hung. Witnessed.

N°02 / 05

— N°02 · The Devil

The DevilXV · Yukino Stuki

Medium · VRChat Tarot · 数字设计

紫黑宇宙里回眸的一瞬，几何金框给混乱加了一记秩序。

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Tarot card XV, the Devil, has always been the card about attachment — what chains us, what we mistake for freedom. Here, Yukino Stuki stands inside that idea rather than outside it. The card is not warning her; the card is her habitat.

The composition borrows from the gold-foil tarot revival of the late 2010s: angular frame, the lettering in serif gold, a halo or two where a halo shouldn't be. The pink trail of arrows cuts diagonally across the figure, the only warm note in an otherwise cool cosmos.

— 关于角色 Yukino Stuki 是 VRChat 上的角色设计。这张卡是为她量身做的视觉化「人设摘要」——星象、几何、霓虹轨迹，都是她的一部分。

The most interesting thing about this card is that the Devil is not depicted as threatening. She is postured, contained, almost self-possessed. The frame restrains her; the geometry restrains her. The pink arrows rest her. We look at her, and the only thing we read is: she knows what she's doing here.

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— N°03 · Aria

Aria宇宙二重奏

Medium · VRChat · 数字设计

一明一暗两个身影，在同一片星空下被照亮两次。

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Aria — an air, a song, a duet performed not by two voices but by two skies. The composition splits the frame down the middle: on the left, a figure in pale hair drifts through soft snow; on the right, a darker figure trails starlight through a deep-purple void.

The two halves are not opposites. They are the same scene at different temperatures — one a winter afternoon, one a winter night. The viewer's eye moves from one to the other and back, like listening to a phrase answered by its echo.

— 关于「二重奏」这是一张关于「并行」而不是「对比」的画。两人不在争辩，不在对照——她们各自完整，只是恰好被画进同一片宇宙。

The hair and the star trail are the same gesture, drawn in different ink. The snow and the nebula are the same quiet, rendered in different scales. The piece is less a portrait of two characters than a portrait of resonance — the way two things can be themselves, completely, and still belong to the same song.

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— N°04 · Seasons

Seasons四季之窗 · Mamehinata

Medium · Character · 多窗口数字插画

四扇窗，四季色。中间的女孩举着画框，像在替我们认出窗外的样子。

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Four windows, one girl. Spring on the far left, summer in the middle-left, autumn middle-right, winter far right. The progression reads across the frame the way a calendar does — left to right, light to dark to light to cold.

Mamehinata is the subject of all four windows, but she's also the only thing that stays still while the weather changes around her. Her blue headband, her orange overalls, her soft smile — these are constants in a world that keeps spinning through its four moods.

— 色彩逻辑春绿 / 夏蓝 / 秋红 / 冬白 — 四个主色相间，灰棕外框是第五种"非季节色"，把四季围在中间。

The windows themselves look like film stills. Each one a moment, a season paused, a colour that we associate with a month of the year. Together, they are not so much a portrait of Mamehinata as a portrait of time — the way time uses colour to mark itself.

She is, in the end, just the witness. The seasons are the painting.

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— N°05 · Framed

Framed框中的她

Medium · Charcoal Digital · 数字板绘 · 古典炭笔

她在画框里，看着画框外的蝴蝶——也在看着我们。

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Silver hair. Round glasses. A black dress, formal, almost Victorian. Behind her, a heavy gold frame is being constructed — or perhaps dismantled — in warm brown brushstrokes. Inside the frame, butterflies and the suggestion of a smaller picture.

This is the most traditional of the five pieces — closest to charcoal, to a museum wall, to the kind of painting that hangs behind a velvet rope. Yet the frame is not finished. It is still being painted, around her, by her, for her.

— 媒介考数字板绘模拟炭笔质感。画面颗粒感来自板绘笔刷的纸纹压感，色温刻意压暖，与冷色头发形成 1.5 个色温级的反差。

The small smile is the puzzle. She knows the frame is incomplete. She knows we are watching her be incomplete. And she is amused by this — not in a cruel way, but in the way an artist is amused when they catch the viewer paying attention to the wrong part of the painting.

We were meant to look at the frame. We are looking at her. She is letting us.

QutaiBai柒　白

QutaiBai 柒 白

Five pieces, read in any order.

Floor画家的下午

The DevilXV · Yukino Stuki

Aria宇宙二重奏

Seasons四季之窗 · Mamehinata

Framed框中的她

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QutaiBai 柒　白