Based on “the search for artistic idealism”, Guo Jin's works allow us to enter his inner soul and show us that there is sufficient power in the happiness there to combat modern society – returning to the original state of mankind in the chronological sense and condensing time in the experiential sense; he uses children as an aesthetic symbol and the magic mirror of man's childhood together with wild joy to build up his own creative language.  Of course, the memories that childhood brings are not only of the time of the wooden rocking horse, nor merely the time of swings and dinosaurs, but the time of all that which has faded away, indistinct and otherworldly, of always asking “why?” yet being unaware of the universal facts, a time still full of appealing mystery; as this time fades away from us it is recaptured and built up anew, in the rebuilding that follows the destruction of age.  This is the feeling, the joy that slowly wells up in me as I look at Guo Jin's paintings.

--------------Extracted from Zhai Yongming's article “Being Competent in the Beauty of Joy”