Only one thing I was ahead of them--Xu Bin,Shi Guoliang and Ai Weiwei and many other artists,is that I went abroad earlier,Chen Yifei and Chen Danqing were the earliest birds though. I am not in the same level in regarding of the training, and the consequence, the reputation.But if I had been lucky, I would have been quite a name in illustration in China, my environment, mostly, are not in favor of me towards my expectation. It is not my talent but the luck evaded me to be an artist with a national standing; while in other hand, I am lucky for that I am not the ultimate victim of the asperity in this country. At least three artists were dead here, if they had remained in China, they would have been lived happily. Two of them died of depression. In contrary to them, Shi Guoliang did not succeed in Canada, but he sought relief by converting into a Buddhist, fifteen years later, he rotated back again. By rotation, or in more proper term, by continuously changing, he lives happily, avoides a rot to set in.
Shi showed me to rotate his eyes when I visited him at the PLA Art Institute. But I rarely practice it for protecting my eyes, and a rot set in for my lacking of persistence.
I have been through different stages of my career: from a staff member at a museum, to a sketch artist, to an established portrait painter, and furthermore to a part-time writer in vocabulary building skill in near future. My life in the past was rough, my prospect will become rosy, I entered my flourishing time again.
