When I was 15, a most depressing age for me, my first poem was published. Since then I’ve always believed poetry can do something great for life. I am not talking about literary poetry, but having a poetic attitude to deal with life especially when it is brutal or hard going. The poetry helps you to go through it.

Through novel writing and film making, I try to discover how someone who has always felt like an outsider reveals the truth of human existence in a chaotic reality. I find the distance between our inner worlds and the outside world can be so far. Humanity cries for love and emotional touch. Art seems to warm and strengthen the human soul.

Shamelessly honest, sharp, poetic and feminine. That’s the starting point for my work.

Xiaolu