Statement

Baiming

Drawing is not what I have to do everyday. However, going to drawing room for staying for a while is a method I depend on everyday.

Drawing always makes me feel living elsewhere. Facing with the canvas for painting, thick and thin painting on grease paint, along with fast or slow movement of style of painting, the natural flow of diluted pigment, sound coming from drawing process, the power that respond of integral canvas for painting gives you, and special taste of grease paint filling with the room. This feeling is clear and fresh each day. However, a long old revering is distinctly felt in heart.

I often self-obsessively feel elation and excitement for a local surprise, the will expressed by a color filled with quantity feelings, the sensitivity conveyed by a neurotic line, the solid brought by a causal overlay of drawing style, space liberation formed by half-hidden of texture of canvas for painting under a thin color, even accident light and warm demonstrated by the refraction of sunlight from outside window on canvas all the time. The sight line is extremely absorbed, then comfort is produced, namely to close the eyes and take a rest can extend the sight line outside the body, and see the real world in meditation. Even though no painting, I like sitting before easel quietly, leanly lying down with a book in my hand for reading, however, there is no intention of reading. This quite lazy method makes mind free, but produces soft depend, which is really enjoyable. The pre-prepared wonderful tea is near the easel, and I use the excellent tea set which is made on my own. I listen to the sound of instrument Guqin pouring out of the sound equipment, only this time I feel sincerely the spiritual validity as a life exist, but this validity is pretty oriental, even traditional.

Just like being enchanted with painting, I like all the views and items with history(this does not affect my moods of enjoying any new things and products of modern technology), through these things, I can find the movement of time and the secret of true meaning left by time in things. The meditation brought by vision and perception is so spectacular.

In recent 20 years, choosing abstract method for continuously painting(including making pottery or water-ink) is not actually due to high-rise objective and reason whatsoever, only for more satisfying repeated experience for above sentiment method of my own. More times of repeated experience can make me feel that my existence is meaningful.

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