Huang Yan B. 1966

'Landscape is a way fro me to reason things out, landscape is proof that I can use objects to unburden my feelings, landscape is an abode in which my mortal body can reside, landscpe is my rejection of worldly wrangling, landscape is a release from Buddhist ideas. I am a man who paints landscape, I am an avant-grade literati who paints landscape on the body. In the midst of a big city teeming with human life, in the humble room where I leas a secluded life, I am not a swordsman, I am not a gambler, still less am I a blind person. There are times when, like flowers falledn into a stream. I forget both the material world and myself, and I just paint landscape, I just paint on the body with wild strokes and haphazard smears, this is enough, it's a state of mind that I get into, I belive in intuition, I believe in landscape, I while the time away amid these landscapes..."

                                                                     -Huang Yan