What does it mean when a calligrapher says "You Grind the Ink but the Ink Grinds You"? To discuss this, we spoke with Dr. Roland Buckingham-Hsiao, a visual artist and researcher and Associate Professor of Art at WenZhou Business College, China. He studied Chinese calligraphy in Taiwan and at the University of Shaoxing in China, and has a PhD in writing as a physical practice from the International Research Centre for Calligraphy at the University of Sunderland, U.K. Through his doctoral work on embodiment, Roland proposes a useful framework by which Chinese calligraphy can be studied through text-image, text-body and text-object relations, including East-West cultural exchange.