About Me.

Shaun Tan once said that everyone was born to be an artist. When we were kids, we would all grab a pen and scribble on paper. As we grew older, we started to care about what it looked like rather than how we felt. He called that stage "consciousness"; this was also when I chose to put down my pen and become an ordinary student in China. Ever since I went to school, I was immersed in an environment where mathematics was considered the most practical discipline. Luckily for me, I was super good at it. Therefore, when I got back to art in high school with my parent's support, reason became imperative in my creation.

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Unlike most artists, I considered imagination not the power of imagining but the power of deconstructing and reconstructing visual elements accumulated in our memory. Imagination is the extension of logic, not the opposition to it. As Picasso said: "good artists copy, great artists steals." We can't create art out of thin air; we can only collage piece by piece from what we have seen, what we have heard.

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And this is what I have always insisted on, taking bold inspiration from the artists I like, stealing visual elements from references wildly, and even using a ruler to measure to within two millimeters during the composition. At the same time, I am also opposed to the accident in the creation. All the steps must be under my control, from the draft to the line, to the coloring. The fantastic thing is that the works created under such rational thinking are not as lifeless as mathematical formulas but instead become a separate existence whose charm cannot be fully explained by lucid language. Maybe this is the magic in art.