There seems to be a universal design for the highways and access roads in every country – namely, pavements on both sides of the main road which is divided by grassed traffic islands. With any sense of the unique removed from the roads, the only way in which one can identify his or her own whereabout is through the standardized road name plates. The Mowing series depicts the ordinary things in people's daily life. I have always been fascinated by the traffic island because as an artificial boundary placed right at the center of the road, the traffic island seems to be some kind of a secret garden off limits to the public. This painting depicts more than just the mowing event or the the road/traffic island itself. The subjects in the painting serves as a metaphor for an alternative space which is often the product of combining the real, material world and a fictional world. We open more space for creative imagination by adding fictional or imaginary elements to our physical world. It is precisely by such practice, bringing together the abstract and the concrete, which gives a small matter such as mowing an extra sense of beauty.（Fan Yang-tsung）