Brushwork, light, spatial depth and negative space are critical to understanding Peng Kanglong's chimeric flower-landscapes. In Fragrant and Flourishing Orchids, Peng renders his compositions using the cunfa or "fine texture strokes" of landscape painting combining them with established shuanggou "outline-and-fill” and mogu "boneless" methods of traditional flower painting. Like landscape texture strokes, Peng's flower texture strokes are based on calligraphy but instead of running or regular script strokes, he employs caoshu or "cursive" and specifically kuangcao or "wild cursive" strokes to render both form and space. These wild cursive texture strokes are not employed in a daxieyi or "boldly calligraphic" expression but rather in a dense and refined, virtuosic performance— brimming with energy but at the most minute and intimate scale.