Daniel and Kate met on the steps of their children's school and were surprised to find they shared a professional interest in China. Daniel is an expert in Chinese art and Kate a post-graduate of classical Chinese language.

When Kate saw Daniel's photographs after a trip to the Yellow Mountains in China, she encouraged him to enlarge them enough for her to write on them in the ancient Chinese tradition. From this, the series "Yellow Mountains, Red Letters" was born. The concept of writing on objects hails back to the beginning of Chinese civilization, when tortoise shells were used for divination and subsequently inscribed with pictograms in the Shang Dynasty(1600-1046 BC). These pictograms later developed into the characters of today's written Chinese. The calligraphic writing or inscribing of poems onto objects became an elevated art form in itself and was greatly admired and perpetuated by the ruling Emperors, who would commission their favourite poems (sometimes their own), to be inscribed onto paintings or works of art of their choosing.

Daniel Eskenazi's photos of Huangshan, one of China's most treasured landscapes and a UNESCO world heritage site, are in homage to these great classical paintings. He adopted two formats found in traditional Chinese painting; landscape and fan-shaped. He then chose to print the images in monochrome on cotton-based paper using a large format inkjet printer to achieve a resulting image close to Chinese ink paintings. Chinese painting and calligraphy have always been closely related and it seemed fitting for Daniel's photographs, derived from Chinese painting, to be adorned by Kate's calligraphic quotes.

The focus of Kate Daudy's work stems from this Chinese academic tradition and her interest in poetry and the memory of objects. Her work draws on the ancient Chinese tradition of inscribing poetry on objects and it can be found in private and public collections across China, the US, and Europe. Her technique involves composing or carefully choosing poetry that reflects or contrasts with the nature of the object in question. The letters that form these poems are then cut from felt fabric and applied in differing techniques, depending on the object. What sets this work apart is the combination of elements; East and West, Old and New, two dimensional photos and three dimensional words.