Living in cities, Wang observes moments when people are immersing in specific states: sitting still, being absent-minded, or being extremely relaxed and forgetting themselves. These scenes bring him sense of both intimacy and alienation. Strangers fusing into urban environment are familiar for Wang who was brought up in cities, while his imagination upon their intentions is opened due to the alienation derived from his identity as a foreigner.
With the water-based pigments which are controllable and contingent, Wang balanced the attributes of different pigments to exhibit the conflict and integration of reality and imagination. As the artist said, “My creative process is to capture and play over those real and mellow moments and reproduce my impression through paintings”.
