“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.”
2 What do you intend your work to convey to an audience?
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
3 Why do you work in your chosen medium and format?
"Mere technical knowledge is only the beginning of Kung Fu. To master it, one must enter into the spirit of it."
4 Technically speaking how do you go about constructing your work, that is the image or object itself? What devices do you employ?
“Don't think, feel!
It is like a finger pointing away to the moon.
Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”
5 Which period(s)/artists/specific works of art are you influenced by and how directly? How does this manifest in your work?
“I have not invented a "new style," composite, modified or otherwise that is set within distinct form as apart from "this" method or "that" method. On the contrary, I hope to free my followers from clinging to styles, patterns, or moulds.”
6 What stimulates/informs your work from the world around you?
"Be formless... shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot; it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, and it can crash. Be like water, my friend….”
7 What stimulates/informs your work from your own personal experience?
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
8 From where do you derive your other visual source material (i.e. non art historical) and how do you implement this material within your work?
“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
9 What are the main problems that you face in making your work?
“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
10 Where do you intend to take your work from here?
“The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead - big possibilities. Like the song says, "We've just begun."