CHINA. Jiangsu province. Nanjing. December 2010. "I am impressed by the huge portraits of westerners painted by Chinese painter Mao Yan. He has been drawing a friend called "Thomas" for the past fifteen years. I can feel an obsession and a sort of impossible goal to reach. I know that I am in front of a real artist. He wonders, he told me, why he can't draw the Chinese."