The Reader is inspired by Leonora Carrington’s painting The Bird Men of Burnley, where one of the three figures with cone-shaped hats is holding a book in his hand. The shape of the book resembles a butterfly or a moth. Moths fly out of the pages; the cover reads “CHEMISTRY”… This image fascinates me. I can barely find any specific information about the painting. I started to draw connections between the moth-shaped book and some manuscripts I painted in 2019 on the subject of the reader. That is how I began to paint "The Reader."

《读者》这件作品是我在阅读Leonora Carrington的作品《The Bird Men of Burnley》受到的启发,画面里戴着圆锥形帽子的三个形象,其中有一个拿着一本书,书的封面是蝴蝶或飞蛾的形状,一群飞蛾从这本书飞出,书的封面的文字是CHEMISTRY……这幅画让我很着迷,我找不到关于这幅画的一些特别具体的信息, 我把我2019年画过几个关于读者的手稿和这本飞蛾形状的书联系在一起,这是创作《读者》这件作品的一个来源。