Artist Statement

Hu Zhiying

I need uncontrollably some special modes to express myself, therefore I cannot fix a certain mode or cling to some unchanged style. I even have to satisfy this need of mine with mutually conflicting processes of creation and utterly different visual stimuli. Only the vast and enormous space formed by two or more kinds of sharply contrastive moods and thinking activities can satisfy this need of mine. I have been engrossed all along in the “cultural contrast” which I think very important, and therefore interweavement of different elements of the East and the West often appear in my works. I try to express this contrast through various materials and even mixed media but the final effect remains simple.