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2020-now: Wall Street Diary 2026 (selected panels)
This is a long-term project with several individual series that combines unique visual art experimentation with technology, economic and financial market information to record mass sentiments.
100 Days of Wall Street Diary 2026, The Whole Frame
“Wall Street Diary 2026”: 100 daily diaries assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
100 Days of Wall Street Diary 2026, Close-up
“Wall Street Diary 2026”: 100 daily diaries assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
100 days of Wall Street Diary 2026, Close-up
“Wall Street Diary 2026”: 100 daily diaries assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
30 Days of Wall Street Diary 2026
From Gan Yu's Solo Show at CCACC Art Gallery, Gaithersburg, Maryland,
USA.
“Wall Street Diary 2026”: 30 daily diaries assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
USA.
“Wall Street Diary 2026”: 30 daily diaries assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
Wall Street Diary 2026
Wall Street Diary, 4-1-2026
“Wall Street Diary 2026” assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
“Wall Street Diary 2026” assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
Wall Street Diary 2026
Wall Street Diary, 4-2-2026
“Wall Street Diary 2026” assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
“Wall Street Diary 2026” assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
Wall Street Diary 2026
Wall Street Diary, 4-10-2026
“Wall Street Diary 2026” assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
“Wall Street Diary 2026” assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
Wall Street Diary 2026
Wall Street Diary 2026, 4-15-2026
“Wall Street Diary 2026” assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
“Wall Street Diary 2026” assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
Wall Street Diary 2026
Wall Street Diary, 4-22-2026
“Wall Street Diary 2026” assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
“Wall Street Diary 2026” assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
Wall Street Diary 2026
Wall Street Diary, 5-8-2026
“Wall Street Diary 2026” assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
“Wall Street Diary 2026” assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
Wall Street Diary 2026
Wall Street Diary, 7-2-2026
“Wall Street Diary 2026” assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
“Wall Street Diary 2026” assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
Wall Street Diary 2026
Wall Street Diary 2026, 10-5-2026
“Wall Street Diary 2026” assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
“Wall Street Diary 2026” assembled as a patchwork, 8 × 10 inches each; ink, mixed media, and collage on hand-torn black mat board; March 2–August 14, 2026
This patchwork expands the Wall Street Diary series while continuing its discipline of daily artistic practice. In Wall Street Diary 2026, I transform the continuous movement of financial markets into a continuous process of artistic production, introducing additional painting techniques and visual elements onto the surface of each diary. To preserve the continuity of the project, I continue to work on the same type of 8 × 10-inch black mat board panels used since the beginning of the Wall Street Diary series in 2011, maintaining the intimate scale established by the original project.
Each diary records the daily movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average alongside significant market events, creating a visual chronicle of contemporary financial history. To make effective use of the limited space of each panel, I use only English handwriting in Wall Street Diary 2026. The year 2026 has been marked by dramatic and rapidly changing developments, including the fast expansion of artificial intelligence, the U.S.–Iran conflict, and oil-market crises. In response to the intensity of these events and the changing sentiments of the financial markets, I incorporate photographic images,
drawings, and ink-wash skies into the 2026 diaries. These elements distinguish the new project from the earlier Wall Street Diary series while expanding its visual and documentary possibilities.
For me, the persistence of recording everyday financial history by hand carries particular meaning in today’s increasingly AI-driven digital society. At a moment when information is generated, processed, and circulated at unprecedented speed, the slow and physical act of drawing, painting, writing, and assembling each daily record becomes a way of affirming the continuing significance of human observation and craftsmanship. The project thus places the long experience of human civilization’s handwritten recordkeeping into dialogue with the technological conditions of the present.
Gan Yu
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