The meaning of image looks intricate and profound in Xue Song's art, for the reason that from a certain angle, he is both the terminator of the ready made image as well as the creator of the regenerated image and its meaning. In the realm of Chinese contemporary art, Xue Song's creation is obviously unique. The uniqueness is mainly represented in two aspects: first, a creation method different from the majority; and secondly, the cultural tolerance, criticism and metaphorical colour of his works.

The treatment of ready made pictorial images and text prints through selection, disintegration, burning, restructuring, collage and drawing to eventually produce the new image which meets his own requirement is both the special creation steps of Xue Song as well as the necessary process for us to read and understand his works. The production procedure which seems like pipeline to the outsiders actually includes, in each of its steps, the historical thinking and judgment of the artist on the basis of current culture and reality and, also, the sensitive grasp and clever application of the complex images which embrace all kinds of old, new, Chinese and foreign elements. It is precisely this kind of creation process, in which meanings are generated from the production method, which makes Xue Song's art an integral part of the Chinese contemporary art since the 1990s.

At the end of 1990, the crucial moment to Xue Song's creation finally arrived unexpectedly from an accidental fire. Since the fire in 1990, Xue Song has found his own art language and creation method from the ruins. Through the restructuring of, and the making of collage from, the residues collected from the ashes, Xue Song created the first batch of experimental works with individual color. Since 1990, Xue Song has walked through 18 years on his personalized road of art creation. Facing the vast history and the numerous worldly scenes: society, politics, tradition, culture, fashion and aesthetics, Xue Song either interprets history from the viewpoint of reality or uses history as metaphors for the reality. Borrowing the power of “fire”, he explores the reality and illusion of art from the destruction and regeneration of pictorial images. Here, on the foundation of a foothold in the reality of China, Xue Song's artistic themes and contents are being deepened and developed continuously.