----By Anthony Stones FRBS 司徒安教授撰写（原英国皇家雕塑协会主席）

In the year 2008 Professor Bao Lin was inspired to make a serious of powerful drawings, in all about 500 of them.

2008年包林教授借助于内心的感受，创作了一系列具有震撼力的绘画作品，那是一气呵成的500张16开大小的黑白素描画。

They were done over the winter of 2008 under compelling emotional pressure in reaction to tragic events both nationally and in Prof. Bao’s private life. The horrifying Sichuan earthquake was the main public event. The deaths of several friends under tragic circumstances effected him on a personal level. As the drawings were done he displayed them on his studio wall making a large mural, and they provoked a continuing dialogue between himself and the drawings.

作品创作于2008年的冬季，创作背景是内心充满着强烈压抑而产生的无法抑制的冲动状态，那些强烈的压抑和无法抑制的冲动，来源于大家的国家汶川大地震，和小家的亲人、朋友的病魔缠身和突然离去。一气呵成完成作品后，包教授把他们都悬挂在工作室的四周，依依仰视着他们、用自己的灵魂与他们的灵魂，进行着‘二地’的心理对话，试图使双方‘缺氧的灵魂’冲出这缺氧的状态。

The constant theme of the series was a drawing of a human face in close up and each one with an oxygen tube in the right nostril. They all have expressions of stress, pain and discomfort. They are drawn quickly in a broad, confident technique which alters depending on the state of the professor’s feelings at that moment.

这组创作主题单一的画面，是正面直视你的人脸的特写，每个人经右耳到右鼻孔边连接着一根氧气管。每幅作品都人们展示着压抑、痛苦和因痛苦而扭曲的脸。作品一气呵成完成于速写本上，技法娴熟，充分地展示了包教授那段‘心灵缺氧’的感受时分。

Each drawing is from the heart and mediated by his artistic conscience and skilled draftsmanship, so that instead of merely illustrating his personal unhappiness they make a general statement about human mental pain and a serious but disturbing art work.

包教授的每幅作品都来自于他的心灵、艺术家的悲天慈地的心和娴熟地绘画技法，我领悟到，这不仅仅是一些展示着他个人不愉快的作品，而是展示了人类的内心精神的感受，是影响和产生优秀艺术创作的重要因素。