From Oklahoma to China West

A windmill, electric poles, and wind turbines, Western Oklahoma

Oklahoma Panhandle region near the Black Mesa

Tourists enjoy a camel ride in Singing Sand Dunes of Dunhuang

In the summer 2013 Yiren had traveled through No Man’s Land with the Oklahoma Alliance for Geographic Education in the OK Panhandle Region and Xinjiang in Western China where the great wall disappears and the Silk Road rises up from the sands.The experience of traversing these two Wests boundaries has profoundly influenced the artist's view on water and land use.