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Absent Gallery:

How would you describe your creative state?

你会如何讲述自己的创作状态?

YUYANG:

是热情与痛苦并存的。现在的环境下，当你创作与女性议题相关的作品时，很难做到一直保持轻松和愉快。但是作为一名创作者，学会在创作过程中需要承受负面情绪是不可避免的。并且在我看来，往往承载了“痛苦”的作品会更加直击人心。

It's passion and pain at the same time. In the current climate, it's hard to be relaxed and happy all the time when you're creating work related to women's issues. But as a creator, it's inevitable that you learn to live with negative emotions during the creative process. And in my opinion, the work that carries "pain" is often more heartfelt.

Absent Gallery:

What factors have influenced your creation?

请谈谈你的艺术创作受哪些因素影响?

YUYANG:

我觉得我的艺术创作主要受到了当前的社会环境和自身亲密关系的影响，同时这也促进了我对所处的社会环境的观察，和对自己、以及自己的亲密关系的思考。也许以后会有其它的新的方向，因为我最近真的对大自然非常感兴趣！

I feel that my artwork is mainly influenced by the current social environment and my own intimate relationships, and it also promotes my observation of the social environment in which I live, and my thoughts about myself, and my intimate relationships. Perhaps there will be other new directions in the future, as I am really interested in nature these days!

Absent Gallery:

What are your upcoming plans or expectations for the artwork?

未来对作品有什么计划或期待?

YUYANG:

传统观念的改变一定不会是在一朝一夕间完成的。所以我想我的作品可以作为一个小小的出口，帮助观众走出传统的叙事环境，站在一个不一样的角度来重新思考那些“从来都是如此”的事情。在之后的创作过程中，我应该会增加单个作品的内容和体量，这会更加适合线下展出。

The change of traditional concepts will not be accomplished overnight. Therefore, I think my work can be a small outlet to help the audience to get out of the traditional narrative environment and rethink those things that "have never been like this" from a different perspective. In the future, I should increase the content and volume of individual works, which will be more suitable for offline exhibitions.

Absent Gallery：

Describe in one word your feelings or expectations as an artist about the current creative environment.

请用一个词汇描述你作为艺术家（艺术创作者）对目前创作环境的感受或期许。

YUYANG:

朴素。其实我本来想的词汇是“纯粹”，这是我在听闻最近发生的一些事情以后，对整个创作环境的期许，但是这可能有一点痴人说梦的感觉。所以我换了另外一个词汇，我希望现在的艺术环境可以更朴素一些。如果这还是很难实现的话，希望我自己的创作可以一直保持朴素和纯粹吧。

Simple. In fact, the term I had in mind was "pure", which is my expectation of the whole creative environment after hearing about some recent events, but this may be a bit of a dream. So I have changed my terminology to another one. I hope that the current art environment can be a bit more simple. If this is still difficult to realise, I hope that my own creations can remain simple and pure.