"Metaphor of Plants" series No.8

‘Metaphor of Plants’ is a series of landscape in which they had been painted from life in Bathurst, Blue Mountain of Australia, and completed in the studio.

These metaphorical scenarios were also extremely common in Chinese culture that had a farming & cultivation basis, 'Ideals were expressed lyrically,' it was a key characteristic that this aesthetic empathy embeds in domestic poetry and paintings of ancient times. In terms of cultural morphology, it rather represents the obedience to the cosmos, not to act explicitly but to aim for self-realization introspectively, in contrast to the enormous change of contemporary life styles; to scenes of fluctuations of life; to the birth-death of a single being... they are the inhabiting references of the 'stabled and settled'.

Such perspective with empathy to a plant, reflects an inner and botanic side of a human - longing for securities and peace. Maybe it was because that the plants not only stretched towards the sky but also rooted into the ground, they're not far from either birth or death: they're a symbol of eternity of cosmos, and a life with a starting-ending-starting point.