Lihong Bai , 1999, native of Wulanchabu, Inner Mongolia, Undergraduate study at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in Chinese painting, master at the Royal College of Art in July 23 in the painting direction. She is committed to expanding the boundaries of traditional ink painting with multi-media, focusing on the issues of mass expression of personal language, aboriginal culture and urbanization relationship. Her passion for art began at the age of six, and this passion helped her gain much from her studies in Chinese painting at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. Since high school, she has been engaged in art and is not ready to stop. She has traveled alone to 68 regions.The work ,ME, was exhibited at Tianjin Art Museum 05/2023 The Metamorphosis, exhibited at Futian Art Museum, Shenzhen 04/2023 The work ,I have a pair of sheep joint bones, won the honorable mention in First-Time Filmmaker Sessions Film Festival 04/2023 The work ,I have a pair of sheep joint bones, was selected for the 2023 Wild Youth Culture and Arts Festival 04/2023 The work ,The Wind is Walking", was selected for the Song "Chao" Youth Art Creation Competition 03/2023 The work ,The Metamorphosis, was exhibited in Shenzhen Red Cube Longgang District Public Art Museum 03/2023 The work ,The Joy of Fish and Water, was selected for the Greek Video Art Midden Exhibition 03/2023 The work ,Compendium of Materia Medica, won the ACCA "New Talent Art Award" 01/2023 The experimental animation , The Metamorphosis, was selected in Shenzhen Youth Art Exhibition 12/2022 Work , Wind, photographic series was exhibited at Hanzan Gallery in Tokyo 12/2022 Work , Cloud, series was selected by Francis Barlier Gallery in Paris 10/2022 Work , Mountain, and "Wind is Walking" ink works were exhibited at the Art Museum of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts 09/2022 The series of , Ruins, was exhibited at Tianjin Hongji Art Museum 02/2022 The series of ink and wash works , Desolation, was exhibited at Hongji Art Museum 12/2021 The ink and wash series of , Sheep, was exhibited in Inner Mongolia Ordos Art Museum 05/2020
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Dust to dust, earth to earth, all things circle around, though dead, though alive, though alive, though dead
The “Compendium of Materia Medica” ultimately consisted of 1,300 bricks made of Chinese herbs and flour. She collected the dregs of the herbs, made them into medicine bricks then built them into medicine monuments, and cremated them, chanting their names and letting the flames purify everything. The process of them carbonising and turning into grass ash to return to nature and enter the next reincarnation is also the law of destiny for all things in the world; it is a funeral for herbal medicine and for all living beings. Death is only a great new beginning of life, in another form, so on and so forth, and so on and so forth. Herbal medicine, as a part of plants, also contains the basic properties of plants: growing, reproducing, dying and turning into ashes. The different forms of herbs are able to cure different diseases of human beings, and in a sense, they become part of the energy of the human body, which is a great contributor to human beings. The dregs of medicinal herbs are the final resting place of the plant, and even the dregs of medicinal herbs, when burnt and carbonised, have an extremely important medicinal value.
She was born into a family of Chinese medicine practitioners who have run their own family pharmacy for generations. Since she was a child, she has been helping her mother and father in the family pharmacy, and since she was 4 years old, her father has been taking her out into nature to pick herbs, to learn about the different forms of plants in the Compendium of Materia Medica, and to climb into the medicine cabinet to eat all kinds of medicinal herbs, such as longan (dried cinnamon balls) and so on. Until now she feels warm when she smells herbal medicine, as if it is a lot of plants clamouring and is full of life. Western medicine focuses more on fighting the diseased area. In contrast, traditional Chinese herbal medicine focuses more on the balance of all aspects of the entire body, with each organ performing its function. Herbs are designed to correct the imbalance of heat and cold in the body in disease states, and each herb has its own hot and cold properties. Among them, charcoal herbs can treat all kinds of bleeding, such as haemoptysis, vomiting blood and blood in stool. In the film, there are 1,897 traditional Chinese herbs. Reading their names is like remembering the life of plants, respecting, praising and remembering the life of all things.