There is a quiet beauty in the moment that triggers personal memories. I am interested in preserving memories and keeping a record of them so they do not fade over time. I also want to show memories in decay, as a way of memorializing them and showing the process of their slow disappearance from our consciousness. 

Beijing, the city where I was born, has changed dramatically in the last two decades. Both spiritually and physically, these changes penetrate into everyone’s daily life. People who were born in the 80’s are called the “Nostalgic Generation”. They are not yet grown up, but their memories have already been blurred or even been forgotten. Being one of this generation, I do not have any ability to change the social reality; I cannot rebuild the historic houses which have been torn down. By working with glass, however, I can examine the power of calling forth memories and the sorrow of losing them.

Collecting and drawing found objects are the ways I record my life. With a natural instinct to extract meaning from narrative, I also find these activities to be the inspiration of my work. I incorporate the drawings and illustrations, which come from my personal life experience into the surface treatment and imaging techniques of glass. To represent the nostalgic feeling and memories of certain times and places that I do not want to let go of.