Plant Portraits collected Ge’s tree-themed paintings in the past two years. This series of paintings started in the summer of 2020. When those grand narratives can't fill the holes in daily life, the tiny visual fragments can weave a net like vines. The trees outside the house, the trees in the photo, the trees that gave me a shelter. I stared at them with interest, and this watching went through a process from enthusiasm to calmness, gradually getting farther away from reality and closer to myself.