Rousseau said, “Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains.”
Soul came to earth wrapped in flesh and blood, while illusion and reality coexist imperceptibly in this world. The moment my heart started striking, I opened my eyes in this misty years, trying to search for another me in the ripples of reflection.
In 2014, I passed the age of thirty, finally unsuspectingly grew up. Maybe someone will laugh at my late-maturing, indeed, it is just because some stumbling in recent two years, that makes me taste rusty taste of reality and wake me up. I gradually withdrew from the mixed space of dream and reality, this let me finish the first real significant transformation in my life. In essence, although I am still the person who’s not very good at communicating with people and always responds slower than others, but I know I have changed silently from inside, my finger can feel the temperature of another "me ".
Some people say that fate is shaped under the guidance of desires, I was very aware of the desires which belong to my inner soul when I was a little girl. I can enjoy a picture book so much that I read it every day until the page thumbed; I can stay up all night drawing on A4 papers until I slobber. At a young age I don 't know what I want to express, just couldn 't move my legs when I met beautiful things, even forgot to breathe. Although I didn 't receive very good aesthetic education at an early age, and didn’t have the talent of a genius, but deep inside some bestial hunger urged me to move on, left me no time to doubt myself. People often ask me how did I get into the art field step-by-step, I always do not know how to answer. Because in my blood, there has always been something restless, I must release it as soon as possible.
The works displayed in this exhibition, is representing my initial phase of art creation since I started creating. They are the records of my self-growth, each piece is a solidified inner vision under independent space and time, accumulating progressively, from one frame to another. This doesn 't make me satisfied, I crave for creating more wonderful works. These works evolved from the "First Blue " series, in the future as "I " slowly appear, there will be more fantastical works coming out, to share the beauty created by the unique consciousness with you.
The shackles on mortals, will eventually break loose by the liberty of spirit.
Hou Wen
October 2014, Beijing