All That I Love -- DrawingPoems

All That I Love / DrawingPoems collects 29 pairs of drawings and poems by Yu Cao. This book has entered the collection of Center for Arts and Language at Rhode Island School of Design. Picasso said "to draw, close your eyes and sing." Heidegger said "poetry is the origin of language." An integrated art form of drawing and poem is my mother tongue through which I experience a new reality connecting me with something larger than me and my life. In impromptu drawings, a world opens up from an intrinsic energy that has touched me - as fresh and exciting as birth, as true and ancient as the sun. Daily encounters with people, animals, watermelons, clouds, flowers, love, life and death are my inspirations. In their presences, I am open and sincere - ready for moments of spirit to come through until the unknown reaches precision. We all experience these moments of ineffable beauty when we are present with what is and connect with other beings. I invite you to dwell in the unknown energy that has touched me deeply and quietly and transported me to the openness of the mind.