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Beijing Youth Daily: A Portrait of Liu Qiming and an Interview Fragment
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“What is the work you are most proud of?” “My son.” — Liu Qiming, an independent contemporary artist. As I photographed him, he faced me, with a large inflamed spot on his left cheek. “Could you make me look a little more handsome?” he asked. I smiled and said I could. His studio is in the Caochangdi art district, its space filled with all kinds of work. People often imagine artists to have extreme personalities, yet he is very easygoing. “Actually, I can be quite extreme too,” he said. “It is just that I put that extremity of thought into taking my work as far as it can go.” Photographed in the Caochangdi art district.