NIGHT/DARK

Night is fascinated. Moonlight is reflected, cities are lightened. It is the end of some people's life however, it is the beginning of other people's time.

Night brings fear. You have dreams, you fell lonely and you lost yourself. The endless darkness embrace you, while you asking where is the light. As a Chinese poet wrote before, "I was given dark eyes by the dark night. Yet I use them to search for light."

Night is private. There is a zone only belongs to yourself. You seek, you hide and you smile. The mixture feelings of struggle and happiness make you strong.

When the night comes, the moment comes. 

WIND/TREE/LEAN

I think i will never forget those days when I was in Dalian. The heavy snow, the shriveled tree and the gentle light in the morning. When the wind your face, you feel like you can even taste the moisture in the air. You hold your coat tight but still walking toward the wind. Who doesn't love wind.

TURE

I always want to do a drawing of my name, and I like the meaning that I gave my name. My last name is TIAN: 田. It is the character to describe field in the old days. It is called pictogram, and the character has the same format until now. My first name is QING: 青 which means cyan. Using the word to describe the color that is not exactly blue but has blue within it. As for me, I would like to say that's grass in the field.

In my drawing, it is cover by grass and it is mixed with blue and green marker to represent cyan. The narrow path that goes through the image represents the field boundary that people can walk on it. The top of the drawing is the sea and beach with a tiny pink house at the edge.

This is probably my fantasy that I can own a house right next to the sea also with a large field behind me.

GUIDE

Sometimes I don't know what I am drawing but I do enjoy the process that I can dive in and think about nothing. There is too much to deal with in life, once I start drawing everything become simple.

I guess, in this drawing I can see my confusion of my studio work right now. I am trying to design a habitat for fish but everything seems not clear. There is something that is leading me but I don't know where it ends and what is the goal. That probably the reason why I make the fish blind so as to force me to step back and not to think about the fish for a second.

Story will come, it will come to us.