In almost every “Wu” painting, the figure of Wu Meng Chun himself is in his paintings, closed eyes expressionlessly or immersed in his own feelings. He has no intention to show himself to the world. In other words, he has no intention to show us to what degree he can prove the existence of himself. It is just as the artist said, “The person in my paintings loathes communicating with the viewer. He refuses to see the viewer. He does not hold any strong postures or put on an exaggerated expression either. He just appears with a very natural, very alive, very common posture. The “reality” is what I manage to express…” The preceding words show us the painter’s real feelings about life. Life is that way- flat, full of accidental and uncertain elements, without beginning and without end. You could also say that any moment is the beginning and any moment is the end. This echoes the verses of Chen I’ang, the famous poet from the Tang Dynasty period, “I look back, I do not see the ancients; I look ahead, I can not see the generations to come.” And what you are certain about at each moment is only yourself. But at those moments, are you the ‘real’ you? This is questioned. Therefore, the Wu’s in the paintings seem to be muttering to himself about this subject in an isolated space. He is questioning, talking, arguing, puzzling, thinking, pensively looking… Occasionally, you can see something twinkling on the person’s fingertip- on the watch around his wrist, at the corner of his eyes- in the fine parts of Wu’s paintings. It’s like a sparkling diamond. It is probably what the person in Wu’s paintings has gained after thinking: The twinkle of thinking. The person in Wu’s paintings is the concretion of his heart, his soul and his mind. The backgrounds were painted as if in the fog, in a dream or in the water. This gives the paintings a not warm and not cold, not sad but indifferent feeling. For sadness, coldness, happiness and cynicism are all subjective feelings produced by people. These feelings don’t belong to life itself, so surely people get these feelings from an artistic viewpoint. In Wu’s paintings, you can discover that the person’s hands sometimes are like Budda’s hands when he is sitting in meditation. About this, Wu Meng Chun said, “I am influenced by the Buddhist doctrines- to free yourself from your own obstinate state. I just want to have myself examined and judged in my mind.” The painter’s thinking sparkled on the tip of the fingers.