A minimal "Big Bang" experiment has been taken place in Wang Yanlyn's studio in Shanghai－a tiny room less than twenty square meters. Wearing the gas mask as astronauts and introducing Apollo space capsule to her teeny kitchen, she put microscopic structure of rock images into oil and high temperature, which made a happening of cancerous alienation. Drastic changes have been made to its former texture and surface, a series of new image and information was created, image and paper eroded mutually and hybrid to a brand-new materialistic piece, which Yanlyn called "oiled image specimen". Amazed by the produced image, she began being obsessed with those embryo rocks in creation. Among her rock collection, those in relevant with her "oil image specimen" in terms of image and feature have been colored with acrylic in topology, given similar semblance but variant essence, they are co-existed with the images as another piece of "specimen". The explosive rocks have wonderfully made colors and textures after the burst. They came from rocks, yet evolved in very different ways. Sometimes they are, alike the cutting pieces from the universe or the vague specimen copy condensed from a micro-world and a macro-world. By studying or closely dissecting those specimens in pairs from a "specimenized" process, Wang Yanlyn has re-identified herself in contemporary art.

Back to the path of Wang Yanlyn's art composition, the origin of art theme, method, and concept is interconnected and influenced subtly to each other. Born into a family with backgrounds of geology and microorganism genes-one studies about the destiny of rocks, the other observes the essence of life; seldom did her parents talk about science before her. It was via those short intervals by casual and by the way provided that Wang Yanlyn with a little chance to intact with places like laboratory, sterile room, and specimen room. And it was at the dark specimen cabinet and the dazzling bright within the lab, the vagueness composed by soaking, collection or growing method has opened up her horizons since childhood, and emerged to her dream in fantastic form and peculiar logic, which greatly impacted her focus point and world outlook. Going through diversified artistic progress, a long-hidden potential has called her, approached her and eventually met her.

Since the beginning, R was in confusion and without form. Specimen [R-r] and [R-struct] are originated from the evolvement of the past geology, by means of the present delicateness and exclamation, to dialogue with the history by fiction and retelling, thus evolving Wang Yanlyn's unique art language in the constant endeavor of structing.
- Text by Florence Yang

*image (left)
© Wang Yanlyn
courtesy of the artist and M Art Center

**Mustard Seed Space is a new space of M Art Center.