Indoor Enclosure, Sub-Alto Saxophone, Drum Roll, Saw, Voice Silence Turns into A Major
Musical Phrase

Li Ran

A boldness that penetrates everything can be created with a filbert hog bristle brush, comparing to a flatheaded hog bristle brush, the filbert brush is more effortless in forming direct strokes. The dark hue of ivory black plays a crucial role in these groups of figure studies. Which aligns with Zheng Haozhong's fragmented emotions. By choosing to observe the momentary dark traits of the subjects, the artist quickly executes his strokes, the smooth surface of the mid-line finished canvas and its bright white background complies with this licentious prologue. In the subsequent steps, he slows down suddenly, pretends to squeeze paint,chitchats with the models, or strokes the Bull Terrier that has been kept in his studio. This pause foreshadows the next stage of the ritual. Rituals should be extremely formal, Colors serving the optical images are appearing, and to interpret the preparation process in history of oil paint on canvas. The artist straightens his neck, observes with a vacant gaze, until his chin tilts upward, his body slightly leans forward, everything is aligned for the sacred ceremony. Zheng Haozhong simply loves this ritual, because starting to paint with such a prologue convinces him this is worthwhile, and he will never regret it.

In his studio, I counted, there are probably four to five approaches to enter painting. In these aproaches, there is always a different prologue, a declaration with unrepeatable temperaments and tones, dialogues composed of various gestures, and a sense of form that has been alienated and intercepted. Zheng Haozhong begins his performance in this studio. He paints his friends in B flat minor, figures switching to major keys are usually people he is not quite familiar with, bright and hospitable, putting up friendly facades. But it's different with the closer friends, the surrounding sick friends who hang around in his studio, they allow him to add more peripheral (outside) tones that are not in tonal relations.