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{SPEAKER name="Jasmine Fernandez"}
This is Jasmine Fernandez at the National Portrait Gallery. I'm going to ask you to introduce yourself
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{SPEAKER name="Zhang Chun Hong"}
My name is Hong Chun Zhang, but in Chinese, order would be Zhang Chun Hong.
{SPEAKER name="Jasmine Fernandez"}
Oh okay.
{SPEAKER name="Zhang Chun Hong"}
And, um, I was born and raised in China, and came to America in 1996, for my MFA program in California, UC Davis. Now I'm just a full-time artist, made my home in Lawrence, Kansas.
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{SPEAKER name="Jasmine Fernandez"}
Oh nice okay. Um could you describe your philosophy on art?
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{SPEAKER name="Zhang Chun Hong"}
My philosophy on art, I really wanted to make artwork that the idea comes from my life experience, my immediate living environment, and I like to focus on the art form, such as composition, scale, line, and space
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{SPEAKER name="Zhang Chun Hong"}
rather than giving a very narrative aspect of the artwork. So because I believe by making art forms, um, I can let the artwork speak for itself and also can reach to farther audience, even though my work is very time consuming,
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{SPEAKER name="Zhang Chun Hong"}
but I kind of enjoy the making process, it's very meditative in a sense, it has to do with my life process and similar to my making process. Sometimes when I start working on a big scale drawing, it usually takes about two months, and when I start it, it’s getting very excited.