This collection of watercolors was painted in February 2020. Due to a rapidly descending disaster (2019-nCoV), each of us was suddenly exiled within our own homes. Unlike my usual habit of staying indoors for work, this time — though I was still painting — as the lockdown stretched on and the pandemic worsened, I increasingly felt the loneliness and oppression of being imprisoned alone indoors. Along with this came a growing sense of suffocation, fueled by the overwhelming flood of pandemic news. Society and the individual alike were swept into a state of complete standstill. I longed for breath — both physical and spiritual.

— Hu Shunxiang, written in Chengdu

这本水彩合集画于2020年2月，因为一场迅速袭来的灾难（2019—nCoV），我们每个人 一时间都被流放在自己的家中。与往日足不出户的职业习惯不同的是，同样是画画，但随着禁足时间的推移和疫情的加重我越来越体会到独自一人囚于室内的孤独和压抑，随之而来的还有伴随着铺天盖地的疫情信息而产生的与日俱增的窒息感，整个社会和个体裹挟着进入了一种完全停滞的状态，我渴望身体和精神上的双重呼吸。

——胡顺香
写于成都