自述

我出生于外婆定居的城市
外婆说当时发生了许多神秘的事
雨连续下了几十天
冬夏不停地轮换更替
妈妈说茶花在她的梦中盛开
妖怪尖叫着跳来跳去
蝴蝶围绕她的帐幔飞舞
她们担心我出生后可能不会存活
因此另一个奇迹是我坐在这里想象

这是一首超现实主义的短诗。虽然夸张，但它描述了我出生时的情景。超现实主义艺术作品，就像是那水面上的旋涡，它其实喻示了水面下所隐藏的礁石或洞穴。

我出生于贵州省安顺市,那里经常下雨，母亲生我时得了疟疾，发烧到四十一度。在确诊是疟疾前，她必须时常抱着一罐茶叶闻那香味，难受才能减轻。安顺并不是外公外婆的故乡，他们抗战时才定居那里。爷爷奶奶住在贵阳。父亲和母亲都是医生，他们从贵阳医学院毕业后被分配去了农村。母亲因为在县城生姐姐时觉得条件太差，所以回外婆家生的我。过完月子，治好疟疾后，就带我回了农村。我在农村住到五岁时全家迁往县城，后来父亲考上首都医学院研究生，毕业后留京，全家因此移居北京，那年我十二岁。

小时候在贵州，生活有时很艰苦。但离开那里很多年后，美好快乐的记忆慢慢浮现出来。家乡美丽的风景，一年四季常绿的树木，美丽的小河，田野，对小孩子来说，那里就像世外桃源。那时，我和姐姐与小伙伴们经常一起去爬山，去树林里爬树，用柏树果打仗，拣蘑菇；去小河里游泳，抓螃蟹，捉虾，去田野里抓蜻蜓；去花圃里抓蝴蝶，金龟子......。我想那时经常接触与观察自然界的丰富经历对我现在的创作应该有很深的影响与帮助，特别表现为对美与自然的敏感与执著。

我来北京后，十三岁开始去少年活动中心学画画，十六岁考上北京工艺美术学校，2003年去中央美院版画系进修了一年多，这些经历帮我打下了比较扎实的艺术基础。另外从许多杰出的艺术前辈那里，也使我懂得作为一位艺术家首先具有的品质应该是：热爱艺术。

这些年，我通过自己的努力，在家人和朋友的支持下，成为一位艺术家。并且通过阅读，学习，创作不断地提高自己。作为一名新时代的女性，我觉得很幸运生活在这个时代，因为能做自己想做的事，能自由独立地创作，并且能使自己的艺术才能得到完善和发展。

这是我的第二次个展，我仍然在丰富着我的艺术创作；继续通过超现实主义的艺术风格来探询自我与世界。今后我还会用我自己的方式继续探索艺术的神秘王国。

My profile

I was born in the city where my grandma settled
grandma said mysterious things happened concurrently
it had been raining for tens of days
winter and summer alternated continually
mom said camellia flowers blossomed in her dream
monsters jumped in and out with scream
butterflies flew around her mosquito net
they worried that I wouldn't be alive after being born

therefore it's another miracle I'm sitting here and thinking

This is a brief surrealism poem. It’s exaggerated but depicts the situation of my birth. Surrealism artwork is similar to the whirlpools on the surface of water; they actually reveal the submerged reefs and caves under the water.

I was born in AnSun city of GuiZhou province. It rains often. My mom contracted malaria when she was giving birth to me. She had a fevered of 41 degrees Celsius. She had had to hold a pot of tea and smell the fragrance to reduce the sufferings before the disease was diagnosed. AnSun isn’t the hometown of my grandparents. They settled down there during the Second World War. The parents of my father live in GuiYang. My parents are all doctors; they were assigned to work in a village after graduating from GuiYang medical college. Mom felt the conditions of town were too bad when she gave birth to my older sister, so she went to grandma’s home to give birth to me. She brought me back to the village after the malaria was cured. My whole family moved to a little town when I was five. Afterwards, father was admitted to the capital medical college as a research student and stayed in BeiJing after he graduated. Then my family moved to BeiJing when I was twelve.

Life was hard sometimes in GuiZhou when I was a child. But after leaving there so many years ago, the happy memories emerged gradually. The beautiful scenery, evergreen woods, lovely river and fields, created an ideal world for children. At that time, my sister, my friends and I always climbed hills, climbed trees in the woods, fought with the fruits of cypress, picked mushrooms, swam in the river, caught crabs and shrimp, caught dragonflies in the fields and caught butterflies and cockchafers in the flowerbed … I think the experiences of having been close to and observing nature has given me deep influence and helped in the creation of my art. Especially manifest are the sensitive and obsession for beauty and nature.

After I came to BeiJing, I started to learn drawing in a children’s club when I was thirteen; I got into the Art and Craft school when I was sixteen; and I attended an advanced study at Print Department of China Central Academy of Fine Art for more than one year. These experiences helped me build a quite stable base of art. And from many excellent art seniors, I learned the prime quality of an artist should be: Love of art.

In recent years, I’ve become an artist through my own efforts and the support of my family and friends. I improve myself continually by reading, studying, and creating. As a female of the new era, I feel very lucky to have been born in this time, because I can do what I want to do; can create freely and independently and can go on improving and perfecting my art ability.

This is my second solo exhibition. I’m still enriching my creations, going on probing myself and the world through surrealism. For the future, I plan to go on exploring the mysterious land of art by my own way. 

Exhibition name：When bird fall in sleep——FangHe’s work exhibition
Exhibition Date：26 Oct—19 Nov 2010
Opening reception：3:00—6:00 PM　30th Oct 2010
Venue：Hanmo Art Gallery ,D08 High Step Factory Warehouse, No 11 East street,798 Art District,No.2 Jiuxianqiao Rd, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Organizer：Hanmo Art Gallery
Tel：8610—59789915 
Email: hanmoart@yahoo.cn HYPERLINK liying343@163.com
Website:  HYPERLINK http://www.hanmo.com.cn/