PREFACE
Imaginary Number
Article: Lin Shuchuan
Li Baoxun is such an artist, rather than painting, he is practicing. Practice is a dual superposition ofaction and thinking. Thinking is the navigation of his actions, actions follow by his thinking, and thefinal picture is his destination, but this is iust a visual result. For a good artist, the result is not themost important thing. This is particularly like a mathematical concept: imaginary numbers. For centuries before Rene Descartes named the concept in the 17th century, imaginary numbers werethought to be numbers that didn't really exist, As a mathematical concept, it is obscure, mysteriousand difficult to understand, I have no intention of popularizing mathematical concepts here. Perhaps Leibniz's statement can help us quickly understand the mystery: "maginary numbers areus between the worlds ofsubtle and stranae refudes for aods to escabe.existence and illusion'. "In Li Baoxun's works, we can easily identify the "non-existence of reality"Even at any moment your eyes meet the picture, you will have the opportunity to capture "amphibians" what Leibniz said.
This "amphibious" is full of entanglements, entanglements and controversies. lt is like a ghostfloating in the picture, floating in the space where the picture is located. lt constitutes a special atmosphere. lt is existence it is nothinaness, lt is both iexistence and nothingness. On the one hanowith the help of vour cognitive dimension and frame of reference, it approaches existence infinitelyand approximates something infinitely: On the other hand, it quickly moves away and escapes fromyour frame, Only the remnants or abandonment are left, which eventually manifests as a pool otcolor blocks.brush strokesisappearing traces sianed bv liBaoxun. Perhaps, this "amphibious" has the inherent sense of destiny that Li Shutong called " Everyboat has its own ferry", which is the significance of Li Baoxun's works.