About half a year ago, I saw some ceramic art works done by FENG Shu and other artists of his generation. They really moved me and made me think deeply. It felt like some of my long holding questions were starting to be resolved. Feng Shu’s work is a type of standard, and I hope I can express some of my opinions through talking about his works.

Despite his recent breakthroughs in artistic language, the style of Li Qing’s art did not become defined until the series of works ‘Finding Together’. Since 2005 or so, he has been working continuously on the series. Metaphorically speaking, he has been building a small-scale labyrinth with these works. In his book The Labyrinth in Culture and Society, Jacques Attali wrote "Whoever has created the labyrinth, s/he has turned finiteness into almost infinity. S/he has stuffed limited space with unlimited time." Seen from this wider perspective, all types of artistic creativity, in one way or another, resemble a labyrinth. And therefore gazing at a painting is somewhat like meandering inside a labyrinth.  

Since 2000 there has been an increasing curiosity by the international community in the astonishing speed of China’s emergence on the globe as one of the key players and a potential competitor of the American superpower.

In the middle of 1970s, I went to Qingpu County of Shanghai many times for doing archeological excavations and holding exhibition. It was in the county’s museum I got known with Debao who was an art designer with the museum.