From stubbornly refusing to use handphone, to using a basic card phone, and then, buying an iPhone 6 Plus with installments, I began drawing on my phone wherever I went. I drew standing or sitting, right-side up or upside down. As the apps updated, the canvas gradually grew larger. Four years later, I switched to an iPhone XS Max. Many of the large images I made afterward were lost when my phone was robbed, leaving only the eight drawings made on the iPhone 6 Plus. Now, on my iPhone 12, with only 2 GB of storage left, the app crashes repeatedly as I draw.
Wanwen zhang(b.1994) grew up in Mount. Emei, a mountain of fascinating nature, Buddhism and Taoism culture and flavorful cuisine in Szechuan province of China. Currently Zhang lives and works as a multidisciplinary artist between Frankfurt am Main, Germany and her hometown. From 2013 to 2017, she studied traditional Chinese painting in Beijing, and from 2022 to 2024, studied fine art and painting with Monika Baer in Städelshule.