“I felt that the simpler the language, the more powerful it would be.” - Cai Lijun

Cai Lijuan has long pursued of simple lines in her artworks, as she could find the simple but extraordinary sense of beauty in or between lines.  “The straight line is the most fundamental element of art,” she says, It is also “the most abstract thing.”

She explored the potential of lines by playing them in space at the very beginning of her career, she engaged with nothing between the lines as well as  her fingers.

Later on, she started to set about threads creation by combining and rearranging them with different colors and textures in so far as it's beautiful flexibility and textile sensations.

Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky’s 1926 "Point and Line to Plane", Cai Lijuan made her bright thread-lines “a starting point to explore the most basic artistic questions: structure, balance, conflict, tension", and finally comprehend “line as a pure form of language,” which turn out to be the philosophy of her current creation.