Yang Yang's "Watching everything in silence" series of works comprehend and express the artistic conception and spiritual connotation of Chinese classical landscape. The works pursue the artistic conception of "screen feeling" and Chinese classical landscape and Japanese Zen "dry landscape". In infinite time and space, to observe all things with a quiet heart is to comprehend and observe the micro and macro, individual and whole, instant and eternity in life and nature.
The aesthetic feeling of "Watching everything in silence" lies in "emptiness." The large area of "emptiness" is not straightforward in expression; instead, it creates the artistic conception of "emptiness" and "nothingness" in Chinese art. After reading many ancient silk paintings, Yang Yang was fascinated by the color and texture changes of silk through time. She has done much artistic treatment in the blank area of the picture, using plants, minerals, soil pigments, foil, and other materials to repeatedly color, render and process the silk and hemp paper, striving to take the thickness from the thin, so that the original silk and paper can change their properties, increase the sense of messiness, present the luster of time, and create an "antique".
Chinese people's "scattered perspective" legal intention opens greater possibilities for vision and observation methods. In Lin Quan Gao Zhi, Guo Xi of the Northern Song Dynasty put forward the landscape painting "flat, high, far-reaching" and "three far" perspective, reflecting Chinese painters' unique spatial processing and aesthetic feeling. "Watching everything in silence " series of works just absorbed the ancient "Pingyuan" observation method, reflecting her feeling of the concept of big mountains, big waters, and ample space, with the view of big, small, and broad, aiming to create a sense of vastness between close and thousands of miles away. The "empty scene" of the painting seems to have little ink. However, it expands infinite space for imagination, simplifies mountains and rocks, and makes the landscape return to its essence and become pure, highlighting the spiritual characteristics of the work. The observation method of "Pingyuan" makes the materials and techniques of contemporary painting freer, broadens the concept of painting space, breaks the limitations of two-dimensional and three-dimensional space, and forms the "psychological space" of contemporary painting.