“Reveal no joy for external gains, show no sorrow for one’s own loss.” This sentence is from the Chinese politician and literary figure Fan Zhong Yan’s poem Renovation of the Yueyang Building written in 1946. If these words tell the hard truth that people are restricted to external causes, then to initiate a runaway plan, or to experience a journey can be taken as a positive response of searching for individual growth and breakthrough opportunities. Creation and journey have a long history of being inseparable. “I travel when my spontaneous urge is calling, and return when the interest is gone.” Excerpted from a Southern Dynasty poem, besides showcasing a sense of self-confidence and spirit of freedom, this sentence also points out the biggest common nature of journey and creation, which is to be able to think independently, have a broad sense of creativity and have a casual attitude yet quite interested towards external reality. Contemporary art creators sometimes carry out such approaches merely for reasons only themselves would know while most of the other times they tend to communicate, and use their own ways to express the nuanced state that ordinary language cannot deliver.
