My paintings are about the intimacy and integration between human beings and their surroundings with the focus on nature. I’m interested in how living beings are interconnected and interdependent in a contradictory unity. It involves the entanglements, the chaos within the continuous changes of existences, and the harmony between them. In my paintings, human figures, mountains, stones, plants and animals form a symbiotic relationship—the outline of a figure turns into a ridge line, or extends to grow into the shape of a horse. I intend to bring out a sense of uncertainty and disorder which implies a density of wistful mood underneath the surreal scenes in my paintings. I also make abstract paintings based on Chinese ideograms and calligraphy. I’m interested in the interconnected relationship between poetry and poetic imagination, and between characters and their negative spaces. I reshape some ideographic characters and transform them into pictorial visions.