The essay mainly describes the creating track and progress of the author during his graduate school years from 2014 to 2017. The author has observed and experienced his own experiences in different life spans and the information shared by his friends on the online platforms. Through absorbing the images and words, the author has pondered upon how to apply the acquisition to his creations with the basis of ink painting and accessory of other mixed materials, such as acrylic pigments, mineral paint, lacquerware and so on. Also using academic papers and psychoanalysis as references, the author finds out his own language and ideology; then this essay, One Fourth of Dreams, was created. This work aims to understand community psychology, psychology of art and color psychology, comprehend them to the information collected about dreams, and draw on creations. The second goal of the essay is to realize the distinctive meaning that different dreams represent in the hope of strengthening the surreal characteristic in the author's painting. The third intention is to use multi-materials to create so as to search for the possibility of Eastern art and confirm the author's personal creating style.

In the first chapter, Preface, it introduces the direction, motivation, purpose, contents along with the definitions of several proper nouns. The second chapter is Academic Analysis, in which historical relics and works of art that could respond to the author's creations are listed. The concepts and ideas behind the author's serial creations and how other artists' works and theories have influenced his works are discussed from the perspectives regarding of history background, researches of other artists and academic theories. Manifestation and Connotation is the third chapter; it discusses the author's ideas behind his creations, experiments of techniques and materials. In the fourth chapter, Analysis and Interpretations of Works, data are organized and combined with aesthetics and the serial works are completed with the proper techniques and materials. The fifth chapter, Conclusion, is about the feedback, retrospect and prospect of this creating process.