Fu Boren is often asked, “What do you paint?”

Sometimes he replies, “I paint big bears.”

But trying to pin things down from his few words can be misleading. Perhaps in this question, “to paint” is already the answer—the point is not what he paints, but that he is painting.

Copyright Notice: The ownership of this series of works belongs to Fu Boren. Due to the artist’s particular circumstances, the works are entrusted to Guo Wenjie by decision of the artist’s parents. The project is jointly curated by Guo Wenjie and Zhao Jingyuan.