Shiy De-jinn said, “Any artist who walks ahead is lonesome.” He expressed his emotion in a bitter way, injecting his profuse and unspeakable love into his paintings of his later years. Under the influence of French writer André Gide, Shiy also believed that “preserving art is accompanied by loneliness”; a beautiful footnote of his short life.

In his old age, Sanyu used a small white elephant on the sandbank to imply his own displacement and fate. Insisting on painting on-site, Shiy depicted the endlessness of the Earth incisively and vividly in his “Little Red Cottage”. “A stroke flies over the canvas and leaves the picture a strip of white. The natural texture combined by countless threads shows a sense of speed and shines as a spark of light.” This description explains the spirit of Shiy’s landscape paintings. He added new elements into Chinese landscapes, using the abundant colors of Western paintings while simultaneously preserving the spiritual ambiance of ink painting.