This is one of YoO’s solo exhibitions at MadeIn Gallery, featuring a series of mixed media paintings on canvas, works on paper, and sculptures created between 2017 and 2021. The works are based on the artist's experience of winter sketching in the Qin Mountains and grasp of the delicate harmony be-tween nature and humanity. This solo exhibition illustrates his recognition of the human spirituality and observation of the relationship between self and society, history and nature, and even between people. Curator Sun Qidong attributes YoO’s art-making to a "Gaia" style of creative practice, which "seeks to realize his communication, negotiation, and dialogue with nature so as to gain force in a dynamic situation". Despite its emphasis on interconnection, the hierarchical, dichotomous, or centralist mindset under an outdated global order is still insufficient to grasp the dynamic force of life. YoO’s practice "allows the Qin Mountains to re-emerge from a concrete, closed locality as the 'Gaia' in motion, thus providing us with an opportunity to rethink and re-articulate the 'clash of civilizations' under the new, networked global order". The Qin Mountains, as Gaia, are no longer associated with the traditional connotations of harmony, nurture, and nourishment, but are rife with undercurrents of contradiction and conflict. The Qin Mountains are the personification of the force of life.