My artist name is Stone Man.  I was born November 4, 1921 in Tianjin, China.  In 1951, near the age of thirty, I was in charge of the International Airport traffic control center in Taipei, Taiwan.  Then I immigrated to a most generous country, The United States of America. While growing up in China, I never made a picture but this great change in my life in the United States, enlightened me to become a self-taught artist.  Having lived through a very unusual life made me realize that I can achieve my dream, to be a painter to express my personal ideas as an artist.

During the past 60 years, I have worked daily on my art with a single and concentrated mind to unfold the four dimensional beauty of the universe.  I continue to use the power of each dimension as the ‘four consciousnesses’ in my work.

In the past, I owned an art and frame shop in Washington, D.C.  That is where I met a customer and future friend, Howard Lester Cooke.  In his life, Cooke has been a curator at the National Gallery of Art and an advisor to the N.A.S.A. art program.  During the 1960s, Cooke introduced me as the "first space painter" to James Dean. At the time, James Dean was Chief Curator at the National Air and Space Museum. After he attended a National Air and Space Museum group exhibition of which I was a part, Dean added two of my works to the Museum’s art collection.

Whenever I walk into my studio, immediately the spirit of painting puts my mind into a meditative sphere of superstructure.  In this quiet state, I seem to lose myself and become a non-being expressing my ‘being’.  I call this approach to art, “The Art of Mind”.

For an extensive period of my life, I created professional presentations of many kinds of art.  During that period, I learned how to extend the spirit of an artwork beyond its frame or matte, into an additional space-depth dimension.  I learned how to use a knife as easily as I use my paintbrush to carve free-form pieces.  These, as well as the rest of my works, are signed ‘Stone Man'.

I have never limited myself to 'Eastern' or 'Western' standards of beauty.  My standard of beauty comes from the beauty of the cosmic world in the infinity.

Many of my works have the feeling of a lack of gravity.  The images appear to be suspended in space, as I have learned through experience how to visually neutralize the gravity of the earth.

In the Chinese village where I was raised, I studied Chi Kong and calligraphy even before I was in primary school.  I was taught by the ‘village expert’.  This experience affected my whole art-life when I started to paint in the United States.  I practice the concept of ‘chi’ painting and ‘chi’ writing.

I never destroy my artwork and sometimes incorporate earlier pieces in new works of art.  Artwork from my past can be transformed into a new piece that has a more profound cohesion, or can become part of a new reality resulting from my cumulative experiences in art and art techniques.
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