Aowen spontaneously painted images that came to her head on Chinese rice paper, while enveloped in the smell of a particular Chinese medicine within a red tent. After covering the entire inside of the tent with painting and text, the viewers are invited inside to share the experience of art and memories through the sense of smell.

With no previous announcement or marketing, Aowen expected that few people would be interested in the performance on the coldest day of that winter. Unexpectedly, during the five hours of performance, passers-by constantly engaged in the project and discussed the subject of art around her. Some people stayed with her throughout the entire duration of the work and people lingered long after she had left.

Aowen thought that under a centrally controlled government and society, people would demonstrate relatively narrow thinking or indifference, yet she couldn't be more wrong.

Why were they so interested in her performance? What had made these passers-by willing to spend hours watching her perform? How come they wanted to know so much about these forms of art with no artistic background?

From that moment on, Aowen has embarked on a journey to discover the culture and lives of these ordinary Chinese people, in order to understand why they were the audience who have given her the most rewarding experience as an artist.