Eleanor Heartney, introduction by Jiang Liu. 48 page Meditations on Empire exhibition catalogue. Tianjin: Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum and the Mandeville Gallery, Union College, 2009.
"In Quest, …the geometric order of the checkerboard is subsumed beneath luminous shapes and layers of color that vibrate visually and speak as much about the history of art as they do about the history of the world. Thus Quest makes the point that, far from being objective records of physical places, maps are themselves consciously constructed art forms. The geography they depict exists in human consciousness rather than within the landscape itself."
—Eleanor Heartney
