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Aesthetics, what we live for.

One night in Paris recently, Two of my old friends and me were drinking and talking on the terrace. Apparently we enjoyed our conversations a lot, it attracted another 2 gentlemen who were behind us to join in. We all come from completely different cultures…

The Imagination of Ourselves

Winter is long and cold, it seems to drag on for the longest time with no end in sight as if on a long boat voyage, the horizon is always present….that landmass far away. It knowingly seems to recede from your approach, stretching time and…

Back to 60s

From my Monthly column in <L’officiel> Mandarin issue April: <Once upon a time in Europe>. Photography by Pickedthoughts.net Painting by Nancy.Z  

It’s Not Just a Dinner

Last month I had been to Barcelona, which is one of my favorite cities to experience Dom Pérignon & El Bulli‘s original collaboration decoding event-“It is not a dinner”. After an entire month of intensive projects schedule,finally I could sit down to share with you…

The New Traditions

Today is the first day of TheChinese Lunar year.  Many of my friends got very confused and asked me: Is it the Goat year or the Sheep year? Back to Ancient time people used to build the “Goat” statue for this zodiac animal, traditionally should…

The Red of New Spring

Since Chinese New year is coming soon, I made another theme about Red: The red of New Spring. As I said before, Red is one of the most important colours for the Oriental cultures,philosophies and aesthetics.When I was a Child, I used to have red…

Vague Figures

As I said, Humans are vague figures, originally we don’t have emotion, perspective or expression. Time creates and Sculpts us as  do the surroundings. Where do you come from influenced your decision at the very beginning, the local cultures gives your unfaded marks, although nothing…

Babushka

Recently I have painted few works about Babushka (Matryshka) Doll. It is really fascinating for me that there are so many possibilities of creativity in a series of stable tiny figures, folk traditions are always inspirational.Also,as the term of Russian old-fashioned lady’s wear, Babushka became…

Museum Inspirations

When I was a child was to become an Archaeologist, but now I have become an artist yet my passion for this never left me. We all have many interests and loves in life from work to a hobby that we really like to take…

A simple day, relaxing at Cafe

Finally I got some free time after the intensive working schedule. It made me appreciate the simple and relaxing time more than ever. Simplicity is key to understanding complexity the of self, I really think so.