"Chinese Landscape paintings tend to create artistic ambiences beyond the natural scenery on which they are based. Yearning for isolation and an ideology towards earthliness co-exist peacefully in the world created by the artist. Nature, in reality, can never be as good as in these paintings. For the artist, painting is a quest to find another identity within his or her inner nature. I believe that we should pay careful attention and respectfully treat both contemporary and traditional art. Having said that, my creative direction leans towards avant-garde landscape paintings, separate from the traditional Chinese Landscape paintings. Why is my pseudonym "Heshang"? I often imagine myself as a leaf floating on a river, drifting with the current, going with the flow." - Gao Huijun, December 2011