The first plant existed for the purpose of home decoration. But today the entire balcony has been occupied by over a hundred Elkhorn ferns and foliage plants. As time has gone on, the roles of "master" and "servant" have precisely switched. A normal day's mission involves bustling back and forth along the balcony looking for unlooked for surprises. But oftentimes it isn't the healthy and beautiful plants which attract my attention, but rather those small black specks on the leaves, little insects. They are possibly communicating some sort of information, just like a signal flare giving off a strange light just waiting to be discovered. Using plants of an extremely small scale as the means of perception and relying on perceptual experience internalized and formed into symbolic glimmers of light, these lights are not tasked with illuminating space, and also do not exist in real experience, but are rather a spiritual existence. Through the medium of painting, with canvas as a vessel, I have here completed the imagined extension of their beings which exists between the plants and myself.
YUNING LIANG