I use my experiences of city life to present my ideas. I linked together a series with the space formed by pictures facing one another on a folding screen and my perception of riding in linked cars of the public transportation train. I use the special qualities of folding screens to echo the twisting feeling of railway cars as they move forward.
I use pairs of screens from a long folding screen to form integrated pictures that can also stand alone. After they are opened up flat, they can also link up with each other and express a cyclical relationship. The content of the images creates a narrative in four sections from right to left. Each section is like a storyboard which captures one part of the entire story, but which also connects the entire story together. This kind of sectioned and integrated story seems to have no beginning or end.
These stories predominantly present people as they are enjoying something that they love, like they are seeking something to nestle close to their souls. This kind of rigid infatuation makes people behave in crazy self-hypnotizing and self-deceiving ways. Even if this dream is shattered, sooner or later the person will search for something to take its place. The stories generally move ahead like a train, not stopping at every corner and everyone is playing their part echoing the title Chasing Dream which implies pursuing a dream.
In the circular composition of the work, the items that each set of paintings presents contain two related symbolic conflicts and express things that I cherish and resist. The title Chasing Dream alludes to this endless pursuit, but also implies repeatedly resisting falling into this cyclical trap.
In order to best present the tidy mechanism of the urban construct, I have chosen simple line, ruled-line jiehua painting and realistic gongbi painting techniques. This also creates a rhythmic geometric composition among the train cars. I double the outlines around the figures to create the feeling of the passenger's movement, which makes the figures appear to be in a real and imaginary place at the same time.