Yan Yi’neng is a fire bringer. He makes the sacred fire present in his paintings. The burning fire, the extinguishing ashes, and the fluttering sparks capture the viewer's attention. We recognize nature in his abstract images, but these scenes are far from being a depiction of natural reality, they are the manifestation of the artist's creative will, a material depth of spirituality.

The pigments accumulate slowly like rock layers, and the plane expands into a world with a strong sense of volume, where his emotions and thoughts gradually settle. However, this "geological structure" with considerable thickness is not stable. Inside the cracked gaps, the heat of the flames never dissipates.

“Burning Time” seems to lay out a geological landscape that is not subject to any civilization. Burning is both the direct perception of fire as an image and the energy that drives purification and sublimation on a spiritual level. "Time" here is no longer a story we weave with words, but time in the geological sense. This time has been going on since the world was formed. From Hadean to Archaean, and then to Proterozoic, the scalding earth gradually cooled down. Where the churning lava meets the ocean, life is born.

Time continues to flow, and the state of life inevitably changes. The flame that symbolizes vitality often rekindles when it is almost extinguished. Destruction and rebirth are constantly staged, engraving traces of change from the surface to the mantle. A sense of pathos emerges from this, which is the divine experience that lurks in the depths of Yan Yineng’s paintings.