Flowers
Zhao Yanan Solo Exhibition
2013.06.08 - 07.04

Six years quickly passed by without my knowing it since I graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In this short span of six years I’ve had smooth sailings as well as hard journey; life lessons came to me too early or too late, dropped me in a confused blank and then a relief. Once knew how to give up, I have a better understanding about persistence. Today is a corner where I am standing and watching my other self walking away, like a stunning dream destined to wake up and then you have to come down to earth.
Thanks to my enthusiasm for painting, I am still able to sit in front of a blank canvas for more than a dozen hours and fill it up with my grotesque imagination, like I always did when I was in school…Thinking about how many paintings that I have painted, I can get some comfort every time I feel tired.