"We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves. —— James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Before I came to study art at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, I studied animation at the Communication University of China. I developed experience in animation, which includes movement principles, scene design, character design and animation. Additionally, I am skilled in the process of video production, including creating scripts, storyboarding, and editing, and have mastered digital tools. Moreover, I spent an expansive amount of time reading, writing, traveling, observing, and recording to enrich my experiences as well as broaden my horizons. But I began to “meet myself” as a student of the Master of Fine Arts program at MCAD, where I experienced more opportunities to see and critique work from other art fields such as illustration, painting, graphic design, public art, sound art and sculpture. Some art forms drew me to study more and explore different materials and mediums in order to find my preferred way of expressing my ideas. One sentence from Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist enlightened me: “Infatuated with images and words, people forgot the language of the universe.” I discovered that the most important thing for me is not the external material forms, but my original concepts. Thus, I now recognize that the skills which I have mastered are just the tools to provide me with broader processes and perspectives to tell my stories. I decided to stop only pursuing art forms and focused more on storytelling. I started to rethink the forms of traditional storytelling and began to explore interdisciplinary projects to conjoin the connections between traditional storytelling and visual art. Join the Facebook Event. Categories All Student Profile