"Journey to the Self: Recent Paintings by Tianbing Li" by Britta Erickson
Published online, 2008 at artzinechina.com

It is the journey of a life to discover and define the self. Tianbing Li's recent paintings, the LC Body and Me and My Brother series, suggest at their core that while Human Beings are not in control of their paths of existence, there is much they can do to further their understanding. Life is pieced together, subject to exterior influences, and in flux. There are two approaches, and in flux. There are two approaches to this human dilemma: we can accept that we are part of a universe in transition, as is represented in LC Body, or we can struggle to adjust, finding that while there may be moments when we have a sens...