Thanks for the invitation from METAL Magazine. For commercial brand illustration, I focus more on the visual needs of the brands in those projects. When making my own products, I focus more on thinking about how to make my design more interesting. I prefer to explore with the brands to make their works physical with different materials and textures.

Exactly, I'm also influenced by millennial animation. I really like millennial and even earlier animation works. I prefer to use colours and shapes to express my feelings and emotions because they are always the most honest. I like to use the phrase visual diary to describe my creations. My creations are actually a record of my own journey - a record of my inner chaotic situation. If I were to convey a message, I would like my work to give people courage.

My previous works were more specific in creation approach, and before that, I was more eager to let people read and understand the inner meaning of my works. My studio is more closed than before, which directly leads me to pay more attention to the inner spiritual experience of people so that I gradually leave behind the physical material.

During the pandemic, I lived alone in my house for six months. During that time I was very desperate to find an emotional outlet, and I had a strong feeling that the world was falling apart. When I couldn't face the unsolvable, the only solution was to forget the problem, and space puppies existed as such (laughs). While talking with a friend, I thought of having such a layer of perspective that can dig deeper.

When I was a child, I had a small black puppy, which was a very important playmate of mine. It is difficult to create a hierarchical division between people in their early years, and I put myself on an equal footing with the dog. Such an experience made me withdraw my identity as a human being in observation. Each dog represents a projection of my own heart or a state I long to reach, and I give myself the mental cues that bring me more positive energy.

I was born in the millennial era, and it is hard to say that I wouldn’t be influenced visually in this electronic information age. The Internet has made creativity more diversified, and I am just using it as a person who is influenced by it, actually without intention, by just extending the graphics that occupy a large part of my life visually. I wouldn't want to resist such influences, and I would even say that I think technology has largely expanded my creative life, allowing me to produce more work at this age.

I don't feel guilty about painting the same thing over and over again. I believe that the present work must have its own meaning at some point in the future. Often, I can't tell why I create in this way - all I want to do is record my thoughts.

Graphic design or art plays the role of a medium for me. It is self-healing and serves to present the state of the person. Meditation is more regulating and improves emotional issues. It serves to improve the state of the person.

The Japanese artist, Tadanori Yokoo (横尾 忠則), breaks the rule that graphic design can only be achieved in a single way. His flexible use of different textural elements breaks the barrier between three-dimensional space photography and graphics, and he gave me the idea that design can be free.

This project will continue until I get tired of it, or rather, until it has completed its mission. For now, I still have the desire to create it. Excitingly, I have a solo exhibition in Beijing [that started] on July 21st.