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Apr 11, 2012 2:00 PM EDT
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Do You Know China's Coolest Photographer?
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We want to know about your collaboration with MAC! How did the partnership come about?
"The visual series in the first phase of my earlier works attracted them. Philip (Ing, vice-president of global retail and special events for MAC) found me. The line is inspired by and named after love and water. It comes from ancient Chinese ideology: harmony between man and nature. Love is invisible. Water is material and tangible. These are two main elements of the origin of life.

"The use of pink represents love and the West; blue represents water and the East. Furthermore, the environmental consciousness within us is what we need in a world dominated by materialism. We should use the fewest possible resources to create the highest possible intelligence, to reach harmony between man and nature.

Also, I really like the mineralized eye shadow. The color and shape of it looks like a yin-yang imprint. I feel this is something that has life to it."

Photographed by Chen Man