Buster’s Love

”Buster“ is the most classic role in Yan Jingzhou’s paintings - yellow hair, big nose, big eyes, big mouth - weird, warped, and even nerdy. It is the embodiment of the artist himself. Buster represents not only an individual but also a group. The character is inspired by early puppet animations as a reference, combining both Western cartoons and Oriental fables.

In this puppet-style enchanted space, the artist touches and narrates love and fear, pain and suffering, boredom and frustration through which he investigates existential thoughts and lingering emotions of modern young people.