My indescribable familiarity and affection for printed products come from my family.
Through China's tumultuous social changes, my grandfather, who was passionate about oil painting, calligraphy, and graphic design, founded the FUYANG PACKAGING AND COLOR PRINTING HOUSE. My uncle grew up immersed in the printing house and later undoubtedly devoted himself to graphic design. In 1994, for his bachelor’s thesis project, he rebranded the printing house as HANGZHOU FUYANG SEVEN FEATHERS PRINT CO., LTD. Around the year 2000, my father began overseeing the expansion of the export business and created a westernized product line that included greeting cards, festival decorations, and party supplies that were made in the family's factory and shipped to stores throughout the United States.
Throughout my childhood, I developed a home-like familiarity with the color blocks of print, the smell of ink, and the thickness of the paper. Growing up, I had an understanding of the concept of import and export printing materials. The printers came from Germany, the paper came primarily from my homeland, and the designs came from all over the world. They met in an obscure printing house and eventually traveled across the ocean to the United States. When I bought the card at Party City, 14,000 miles from home. It finally returned to me, we come from the same place. Both the printed goods and I had found our way here. Suddenly I was a collaborator, both multi-local and multi-cultural.
on exhibition “No Longer Transparent”, 2022