A meticulously constructed grid of crosses and intersecting marks fills the canvas in Ding Yi's *Appearance of Crosses 99-9*, rendered in acrylic atop tartan fabric whose inherent plaid pattern merges with the artist's repeated mark-making. The layering of painted crosses over the textile's pre-existing geometry creates a dense, hypnotic interplay between the handmade and the industrial. The work reflects Ding Yi's ongoing systematic exploration of the cross as a purely formal unit, stripped of symbolic meaning and transformed into a vehicle for examining pattern, repetition, and visual rhythm.