In the mid-1960s, Chang Dai-chien began a move to the Carmel area of the Monterey Peninsula on the central California coast, and by 1969 had moved most of his family to Carmel from Brazil.  Chang had visited the Bay Area annually beginning in 1954, and had many friends in the ink culture community there.  These included artist Paul Hao, and several influential scholars like Yvan d'Argencé at the Asian Art Museum, James Cahill at U. C. Berkeley and Michael Sullivan at Stanford University. Sullivan was an activist/art historian who was engaged with documenting 20th century Chinese art beginning in the 1940s and arranged to showcase Chang's work at the Stanford Art Museum in 1967, and in group shows in 1968.   In August of 1967, Sullivan hired a local filmmaker named Dick Ham to create an original film of Chang Dai-chien creating a painting - from initial inspiration to completed work.  Although the film was lost for decades it was re-discovered in the 1990s, digitized and restored in 2011.  

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