Ancient Persian poets compare poetry to a pearl necklace. Each couplet in the poem is like a pearl. Once strung by meter and grammar, they form a perfect verse. Deeply influenced by Indian and Persian art and literature, Han Mengyun recreated the poetic imagery in the mind of Persian poets in works such as “A Broken Verse I”(2021), a manuscript-like painting depicting a severed string of pearls. “Scattered Pearls” (ongoing since 2021), on the other hand, is a series of works on paper inspired by another form of Persian literature—prose, which evokes the image of loosely scattered pearls that engage in an open and spatial dialogue with one another.