The interior corridor of the Bei Lin Stone Steles Museum in Xi’an, captured in 1988, features stone tablets mounted along brick walls. In that year, the corridors of the Bei Lin, also known as the Forest of Stone Steles, exhibited rows of carved stone tablets integrated into brick structures. These “stone books" serve to preserve calligraphy and classical texts through inscriptions rather than printing methods.

The photograph highlights elements of repetition, structural design, and material durability. Light, shadow, and receding columns guide the observer through a space where knowledge is preserved as architecture, thereby uniting scholarship, craftsmanship, and endurance over centuries.