Studying and updating traditional Chinese aesthetics the artist chose water as a bond that connects his soul and objects. He draws the waves with a light pen during the exposure process of taking the photography. These waves represent the artist soul and his trace in a certain time and space. In Chinese Painting, Philosophy is personified in natural objects. Dong Wensheng applied this language conversion to the different scenarios that he carefully selected: the symbol of Chinese Confucian culture, the symbol of China's modernization, People Of Different Identities, rivers and lakes which gave birth to the civilization (although China has a long enough coastline, it has not any form of ocean civilization, the birthplace of Chinese civilization is to be found around inland rivers and lakes). In fact these scene choices present the extraction of field of different issues in China's present.

Dong’s system stems from human, history and culture and his understanding and reflection on Lao Zhuang philosophy, Zen and Buddhism, as well as philosophy of Yukio Mishima, Gaston Bachelard, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault. In pursuit of personal style, he has also studied Hiroshi Sugimoto and Alfred Stieglitz photography.

Dong Wensheng was borned in 1970, in Jiangsu province.