Author Description

"Symbiosis" is an Eastern artist's growth epic that pays homage to "John Christophe" and tells the story of the protagonist, Li Runci, spanning more than half a century. Starting from her infancy in a mountain city by the Jialing River, she experienced the ignorance of a Chinese primary school, the search under the iron window, the artistic awakening under the Liberation Monument, and tempered her resilience in the ups and downs of marriage and the cross-border symbiosis of law and painting in the era of intertwined red and gray. After retiring, in her 60s, she dreamed of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and the Mogao Grottoes. She found a balance in the collision of Chinese and Western art, healed past trauma with a paintbrush, and completed reconciliation with herself and her family. The work combines the thickness of oil painting with the agility of ink, intertwining personal destiny and the mark of the times, exploring the symbiosis of love and redemption, art and life, tradition and innovation, and completing self-salvation through art and love. It finally proves that "living is a miracle, and experience is the best answer to life."