One Child Game 2008-2009 Self-portraits 33.6” x 42" Ink-jet print Edition 8 20" x 24" C-print Edition 30 The term One Child Game comes from China's One Child Policy, which was initiated in the late 1970’s in response to the government's concern about the over-expanding Chinese population. I’m among the first generation of children born under the One Child Policy. Without any consciousness of throwing comment about the policy itself, whether it’s reasonable or inhuman, my life has been the way it is from the day I was born, as is true for all my peers, who were in exactly the same situation. We are the generation of indulgence, family attention, self-centeredness. It’s even been somewhat frustrating to understand that the issue of birth policy has been a constant focus of the world's human rights organizations in their protests against the Chinese government. Conversely, we thought we were the generation of beneficiary due to the materiel support and extra attention from parents and society. However, occasionally, when I’m alone, and my meditation leads me to be isolated, I realize that I’m the one who shares things with nobody, I’m the one who plays games by himself. And it seems meant to be. In 2008, I started walking along the waterfront in New York City. Circling the island and walking the edges of the boroughs has been a lot of fun, especially since I didn’t have enough of a reason to leave New York, the city of my reality at the time. It’s been a game of sailing to nowhere, but a circle of meditation. I dressed myself up in the uniform of a communist school boy, which I wore for at least 6 years almost everyday during my adolescence while I was holding a naive dream of traveling around the world. Now I'm grown, and I’ve been to a lot of places, however, I realize that I’ve never really been travelling. I have just been making circles in different places, like a disoriented adult tourist optimistically posing as a commemorative statue of victory, who seems dominant, however is leashed as a puppet with a huge case of dreams, missions, obligations, responsibilities, reality, etcetera. Through an often focused topic of transference from adolescence to adult, this series of work partially presents my point of view towards the existence of my life as an unfinished game, as well as bringing questions to the stage of life both personally and philosophically.