----By Anthony Stones FRBS 司徒安教授撰寫（原英國皇家雕塑協會主席）

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

2008年包林教授借助於內心的感受，創作了一系列具有震撼力的繪畫作品，那是一氣呵成的500張16開大小的黑白素描畫。

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.

作品創作于2008年的冬季，創作背景是內心充滿著強烈壓抑而産生的無法抑制的衝動狀態，那些強烈的壓抑和無法抑制的衝動，來源於大家的國家汶川大地震，和小家的親人、朋友的病魔纏身和突然離去。一氣呵成完成作品後，包教授把他們都懸挂在工作室的四週，依依仰視著他們、用自己的靈魂與他們的靈魂，進行著‘二地’的心理對話，試圖使雙方‘缺氧的靈魂’衝出這缺氧的狀態。

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.

這組創作主題單一的畫面，是正面直視你的人臉的特寫，每個人經右耳到右鼻孔邊連接著一根氧氣管。每幅作品都人們展示著壓抑、痛苦和因痛苦而扭曲的臉。作品一氣呵成完成于速寫本上，技法嫺熟，充分地展示了包教授那段‘心靈缺氧’的感受時分。

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來自於他的心靈、藝術家的悲天慈地的心和嫺熟地繪畫技法，我領悟到，這不僅僅是一些展示著他個人不愉快的作品，而是展示了人類的內心精神的感受，是影響和産生優秀藝術創作的重要因素。