I want to use my father’s memory. It happened around 20 years ago before the Chinese New year, on his way back to our hometown, a small village in the mountains in the east of Liaoning Province. He was driving a car borrowed from his colleague on the rural mountain road. It had snowed some days ago so the road was covered by snow and mud. It was nearly midnight, and the surrounding was dark. Because of all these reasons, he couldn’t watch the condition of the road clearly, and his car broke down in a gap. At that age, the mobile phone had not popularized yet. There was still some distance from the nearest village. He failed to find any one for help, so they had to repair his car alone. Then, he said they heard the howls of wolves in the mountains. It happened in a sudden so he used one or two seconds to recognize what had happened, then he felt extreme nervous but helpless.He imagined many scary scenery in his mind. Luckily, he had learned how to solve problem of the car from my grandfather and he managed to repair it. The moment he jumped into the car, he felt so relaxed. And he just couldn’t wait to return home.

• Yongxin Li, diptych
• My concept is to fight against the virgin complex. For women, it is normal for women to be not a virgin, and women with sexual experience are not dirty or shameful. The origin image is a white rose smeared with some red color, which means that in some people’s mind that women who is not a virgin is “dirty”. The second one reveals the truth, and shows how this complex hurts women in social life. The red color is actually drawn by lipsticks,.It usually reminds others of women’s beauty, which is precious and not dirty at all. However, because of the virgin complex and people’s behavior brought by it, many women were locked and hurt and the painting of lipstick becomes heavy read patterns which look like blood.
• (1) Part 1 was photoed in a cafe. I put a use my lipsticks to draw on an oil paper which is usually put under the bread. Then I dipped the rose on the painting to get it colored. I put the another oil paper on the table and put the rose on it. I made the light shoot from the upper right corner, and the background is dark. When looked generally, the flower faced towards the light. The photo is focused at the flower.

           (2) When creating part 2, I first created the background. The background is constructed by black and white, which were divided by a diagonal line, to create a feeling of conflict. Then I cut the flower down and put it in the middle as the subject. Next, I cut the figure of the lipsticks from another picture and attach it to the left of the flower. A pair of pure white rose is put up the subject, and I made change the light mode of their layer so they looked darker, but seemed to be more white because of the contrast and more stressful, like something hinted at the subject. I cut some branches of rose and put them on the rose which looked like iron chain to lock the subject. Then I use the photo of my original photo. I distorted it and use the stamp tool to modify its shape, and I used eyedropper tool to collect different colors cause by light and shadow and I adjust the color of the pattern to make it look more close to blood. In this step, I chose “dissolve” mode as well. Finally, I added a hand streaching towards the bright side.

• I will try to use more factors and consider more about the composition and color to make more visual impacts as collage