Portfolio and Interview
Dachu Studio: What's wrong with him?
Answer: "This is Vincent Van Gogh. He lost his ear, it must be painful, very painful."
"It hurts more than my broken fingers."
"Look, he is bleeding a lot, scarring."
"I don't know what kind of flower he is, but he is soft."
"He looks like the newborn brother of my friend, so I let him wear my old bib."
"I love spring, cause I can paint eggs, eat chocolates."
Dachu Studio: That's a lot.
Answer: "Yes, I do paint a lot of funny things."
"But I am always sleepy in the evening."
"So I have a lot of ester egg chocolate with me."
"This is me. I was painting. The colours always run on my face, I simply cant do anything with them, then just cant stop to run on my face "
Dachu Studio: Also on you body?
Answer: "No. Can't you tell? They are eyes, lots of eyes. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, night pair of eyes."
Dachu Studio: Why?
Answer: "Cause you can't see eyes when the face is dirty. So, I put the eyes on the body, then you can see it clearly even though the face is dirty."
"I am quite into dinosaur study recently."
"My favourite dinosaur is brachiosaurus."
"They don't eat meat, only eat grass. They are kind, they don't bite."
"Me too, I got allergy quite often. You see...... I don't eat any of them."
"They are carrots and mushrooms."
Dachu Studio: "Why you paint them?"
Answer: "I don't have a clue. They've been there for a long time, they are dying. Tomorrow I might can't see them anymore."
Dachu Studio: "Do you like them?"
Answer: "I have no idea."
"This is Mr. Magic."
"He is electric. When the power is on, he will squint and sing happily."
Dachu Studio: Is the powered on when you were painting?
Answer: "No, he isn't."
Dachu Studio: Why?
Answer: "Most of the time he is powered off. So quiet, I can see the eyes."
"This is my graduation design. I am also a musician apart from artist."
Dachu Studio: Are they all musician?
Answer: "The are music, I am human."
"Musician should be kind and unity."
Dachu Studio: Your mother told you?
Answer: "Yea, everyone said that. Musician should be kind and unity; human also should be kind and unity."
Ivan Zhao's artworks exhibited in Young Artists' Summer Show by Royal Academy of Arts