“Goodbye to an Old Man” (2008) records the process of the disappearance of former politician Hua Guofeng as the artist repeatedly prints his portrait until there is no ink left, while “M100, Y100″ (2009-ongoing) requires the artist to print a single sheet of paper covered purely with red ink on a monthly basis. Although the former work implicates the political through its allusion to a particularly uncontroversial state leader, it serves largely as a foil for the conceptual abstraction of the latter, giving way to an account of duration as a technical move divorced from the greater forces of history, memory, and symbolic imagery.

(Robin Peckham, Cameras, Printers, TV Sets and Computers, 2009[Excerpt])