Hi, I'm Ying. When I was five or six, I had my first instincts on who I wanted to be: first a botanist, and second an artist.

Eventually when I wandered, from the Amazon to the Sahara, I saw how people were born of their landscape, and joined with the land in their spirituality and agency in everyday life. The significance and insignificance of individuals in their environment have always drawn me, and my visual art seeks to express this integration: of human and nature, of modern and timeless, of order and paradox, of ordinary and extraordinary.