Motivated by the theory of “Psychical Distance” that put forward by Mr. Edward Bullough, an English aesthetician and scholar, I created my animation works with this aesthetic principle to deal with the relationship between reality and art. I name my works “Whole and Parts”, which means to gather parts into a whole and break up the whole into parts. Although our daily life is composed of numerous moments and fragments, what we need to do is to present a generalized and idealized art of life with the help of a variety of rhetorical devices, association and imaginations, but not to depict every life scenes in details. If we say life is a whole thing, it seems rather ordinary, yet it fills with infinitely unusual things that carry on emotions of joy, sadness, touched-by, sudden enlightened, and etc., and these sensations are not coming from nowhere; on the contrary, they come from moments that are worth of our taste, reflection and appreciation. Having a good catch of these instants, I tried to express them in my painting and to create an atmosphere of ideal distance between personal experiences and the public’s expectations by moving through the “whole” and the “parts”.
