The children in his paintings, rusted and spotted with age are ancient like terracotta soldiers or excavated relics, covered by the physical damages of age, the build-up of time history, even of change itself, the accumulation of life's sorrows; in the end this becomes the artist's symbol of having passed through recollections of the vicissitudes of this life, areflection and contemplation on the garden of our childish nature. Guo Jin's art expresses“a reflection and contemplation of man's naiveté”..