Classical to Future

Zongqi Zheng, whose English name is Tim, is an artist, animator, and independent musician currently residing in San Francisco. Tim is well-versed in various aspects of art, from fine arts to animation, from illustration to filmmaking. He views various forms of art as tools of reason and methods that encourage, guide, and even lead those around him to become better individuals. He is renowned for his commitment to collaborating with classical fine arts while also exploring new elements and modern narratives. His work is primarily focused on the element of time, but he is tirelessly seeking a place that can break free from the clutter of contemporary ideologies and provide the public with a place to rest, of course, within the realm of art.

For Tim, art surpasses everything, so he was born an artist, is creating art now, and will do art in the future, perhaps forever. This is based on his view of art, where art is detached from politics, economy, convention, and sometimes even from humanity itself. It represents true freedom, pure advanced rationality.

Tim seeks to find a third path to break free from the ideological dilemma of today's society. Since collective and individualistic societies today are mutually blaming each other for producing cultural products, the mission of the new generation of artists is to create more beauty, study beauty, from the first prehistoric cave paintings to contemporary commercial art, and use art and design to reshape the world once again, abandoning ideologies for free creativity. On the other hand, many of us are not shaping the world but preparing for the arrival of a better world, which will be another aspect of human art and rationality.