Jade Mao

To me, a great piece of art work is like a good book. When reading books, it feels as though the readers gets more out of it than the author; when looking at art the same thing can happen. Perhaps the content of the book opens the readers’ eyes to some meaning of life. Perhaps the colors in a picture strike a chord with the viewer’s memory. To me, a great picture is better than a great book. A picture can be hung at home and looked at countless times; while a book sits in a corner of a bookcase waiting to one day be reopened. It is a goal for me to one day be able to produce artworks that are completely my own. I want to create pieces from within myself rather than from a picture someone took. May it attract people’s eyes through the energy behind it, and not just how complex or how pretty it is. I want to paint a picture that stops people in their tracks and makes them stare at it, that would make me really happy. I don’t know yet how to do that, but it is a goal of mine. Maybe after doing more pieces the strokes and pictures will just flows out of me confidently, and I will become a better artist. If a picture is a thousand words, let mine be a million, a billion. Not just colors and lines on a canvas or paper, but something deeper, deep enough to reach out and grab the should of all who looks upon it.