To paint, to do any creative activity, is to enter into another dimension of real life. Art is an integral part of life; doing art is an exercise in personal growth and development. Doing art requires unceasing reflection, thought, and breaking free of the bonds of emotional, intellectual, and spiritual inertia.

In creating, the artist must overcome the difficulties of finding means to fully and clearly express what may have been a passing impression or what has devloped into a way of looking at the world. As artists, we cannot be limited by (or, rather, we cannot allow ourselves to fall into the trap of employing) a particular medium or style in sharing our artistic vision with others. We must begin with feeling and then find the means of expression which best communicates that feeling. This process of feeling, refecting upon that feeling, and finding a means to share that feeling is a feedback loop that results in the continual maturation of poetic and aesthetic sensibilities.

To be an artist, I must be concerned about and in touch with humanity. I must also be aware of art's role in society and the influence it wields. As an artist, I must find my orientation on the artistic and social crossroads upon which I find myself. I live and create at a time and in a place in which historical and social currents are creating flows and eddies in which it is easy to lose ones way. What five thousand years of Chinese culture brings to us and what we are exposed to of Western cultures pushes and pulls us in directions too often diametrically opposed. Finding peace in such turbulent times is no easy feat, but it is to this calm harbor that in my artistic activity I endeavor to find a course.