I often see the charm in sparkling dust. Dust has always been the substance closest to our life. It’s nature and

everywhere. It joins cycle of human’s body with the breath… When it falls down,accumulating into a thick and

dirty form at the same time becoming so light which often being ignored. I also see how urban development

changed the dust’s nature and lightness, all becomes complex, it’s synonym of desire, disease and desperation...

Through gathering dust, burnish and polish it repeatedly,the canvas showed a mirror effect, the question I’d like

to raise is exactly what you see through it ?  At the beginning of my creation of this series, I tried to use the

simplest media, only dust and glue, and labor myself heavily to achieve the mirror effect that I wish to show in

the work. This is how dust eventually is fixed on the canvas, losing its lightness forever, but carrying an extra

mission of reflecting what things truly are.

Zhang Zhenyu