Painting is a peaceful process full of expectations.  In several hours of independent meditation, I clear my mind and fall into the world of quietude.

Every piece of work is a memory unable to recall, and a reality beyond reproduction. The stories in my memory are always separated by the border of time. In the faraway status, it is sometimes definite, like something happening around you, or becomes vague and out of reach. In regard of time and space, the past, no matter how brilliant, will disappear. I cannot reverse the time or recreate the memory.  All I can do is to memorize.

Thus, I start to fly in the intangible imagination of art and drift between recalling and memorizing. I attempt to build up a home of mind with my paintbrushes. At this “home”, every scene is derived from my memory, while my mission is to re-edit and re-arrange these selected segments and turn them into a story.

In my opinion, everything in the world is suggestive. Different objects and images offer different implications and metaphors. During the process of painting, I have to select the objects in my memory with my life experience.  Trees, boats, fish, horses, candles, pagoda, wind and clouds, all these objects form my world, which I love so much. I cannot explain what every object or mark in the scene actually symbolizes….  They are of disorder and dissociation.  However, one thing I can assure that they represent the sentiments of human nature and the settlement of mind.

Finally, I want to tell what I think, what I care, and what I dream.

urator: Deng Yaming

Organizaer: Chantilly Art Center