Each time when I return to my hometown, a small town in Inner Mongolia, my heart is immediately grasped deeply. Walking along the boundless strech of mountain grasslands, seeing flocks of sheep flowing down and up faraway, looking at a little dried grassland with clear small pebbles and especially meeting and talking with shepherds with unadorned faces and plain clothes, my feeling is so easy and enjoyed. I happen to meet with flocks of sheep or cattle face to face and I can feel strongly their feeling of confidence and dignity as masters. I paint the miraculous and sacred Mongolian living at this magical land endlessly. I look to see what is the essence is under the unadorned Mongolian face, the plain clothes, plain streets and the simple houses and shops of the small grasslands town.
When I go abroad and visit museums and from all kinds of art books the most attractive works to me are the Middle Ages and the Renaissance masters' such as Piero della Francesca, Paolo Uccello, Hieronymus Bosch, Bruegel the Elder and Pisanello etc. I am so moved innermostly by their intention and spirit like the attaction by the Mongolian and the grasslands. Can the Mongolian living at the grasslands in my eye have some likeness with the Renaissance people in the masters' works?
I do running exercise and enjoy classic music nearly everyday.These can inspire my creative power. I hold the old Chinese saying that "nature has the same structure with man". And my artistic philosophy is the same as Giorgio Morandi that I believe more in art for art's sake than in connection with a religion, social justice or national glory.
