Jiayi Bao

My name is Bao Jiayi. I specialize in creating narrative illustrations, typically featuring social events and traditional stories from China.

My graduation project combined electronic painting with textured paper.

Project 1: The Bear Crisis presents the interactions between bears and humans following habitat destruction through five scenes.

The tragic collision. Against a black background, the bear appears orange—the void versus

The warmth that blessed the survivors. The keyboard transformed into a stump; the barbed wire merged into branches.

In this scene, the dining fork transforms into a weapon. This is not a story of attack, but a tragedy. The inevitability.

Project 2, Gray Bones in Spring, is a fictional archaeological archive rooted in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The female figurines and the Nüshu script. The story is set in Shuangtaojing during the turmoil of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

The woman sent a secret message to her grandmother for help; the blood revealed the character "Gong," and together they created the Beihu culture.

The Southern Han dynasty double-bodied figurine is depicted embracing with one hand. Women from the city gathered along the city walls—a scene that has endured for a millennium.

Post-archeologists have reconstructed this buried history of mutual aid. Visual integration.

Mural paintings, archival documents, and the brushstrokes of Nüshu script. "Gray bones share spring's vitality" – emerging from the ashes...

Let's welcome spring together.