Ding Yi was one of the first contemporary Chinese artists to focus on abstraction, deciding to pursue the repetitions of the cross motif when others at the time were engaged in Political pop and figurative painting. The patterns refer to the steady rhythm of urbanization in his native Shanghai. The cross is also the most basic element in color printing technology and was possibly inspired by Ding’s experience working in a printmaking factory as a young man. The motif can also be linked to the Zen-like meditative state of meticulously painting each cross. In ‘Appearance of Crosses 2006-3’, 2006, the tartan material, which serves as the artist’s canvas, reflects his interests in cloth printing as well as his relationship to the city grid formations.
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