Xu Zichun (Chinese, b.1997) who is from Yunnan Province surrounded by mountains located in the heart of mainland China, depicts the mountainous landscape of his native Yunnan.
 

Xu, who draws inspiration for his work from music and memory, is a man who lives in memory. Returning to past experiences and emotions and observing their impact on himself is the foundation and impetus for his work. Memory is an organic entity that sustains Xu's psyche, “metabolizing” with the passage of time, changing form, but still living inside of him.

By depicting abstract memory in figurative form and reconstructing it as a work of art, the artist's own existence is brought to light, and an exploration of the relationship between “memory” and “I” is begun.

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At the center of his expression is the worldview of how memory forms the personality of “I,” and how forgetting can take on new forms and continue to exist in other dimensions. By projecting the forms and emotions born from the metabolism of memory, Xu continues his journey of self-reflection and facing the self even more deeply.

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In Xu's work, the flow of time is captured from the flow of the musical scale. Like a musical scale that repeats highs and lows and then adjusts to “natural” (♮), the mountains and horizon of Yunnan Province are used as a metaphor to express the fact that matter goes through various inflections and then adjusts to neutrality.