Jingjing Lin

A Conceptual Art Journal by Jingjing Lin

My mother was unjustly persecuted during the Cultural Revolution in China. Just because her family fled to another country, my mother was imprisoned and branded a foreign spy. Her family's ancestral home was confiscated, and her family's personal effects were robbed. Everything was damaged if it could not be taken away, even the books were burned. They turned her life upside down. It was a mess. After being beaten by a group of Red Guard thugs, she was then sent to the countryside to feed pigs daily and to do farm work to undergo so-called "ideological reforms". This experience was an unexpected catastrophe for my mother.

It is a complicated process to reflect on human nature from obscurity to awakening. Throughout history many people have paid with their lives.

Little progress has been made in exploring and knowing the facts.

If this kind of catastrophe is still repeating, if society continues to encourage fanaticism, if patriotism or populism is still without humanism, what do we face then?