We should leave Wang Keping’s work to speak for itself. The “meaning” is in the form. And what form! If, as I believe, what has been called the “inner core” of art is the way in which the artist transforms feeling into form then we can see that mysterious process taking place before our eyes with Wang Keping’s passionate engagement with a chunk of wood.

-Prof. Michael Sullivan
Author Art and Artist’s of Twentieth-Century China (1996), The Arts of China (2000), The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art 1989 and 1997) and Modern Chinese Arts: A Biographical Dictionary (2006)