Born 1967 in Yunan, China, He Yunchang graduated from the Department of Oil Painting at Yunnan Arts University in 1991. He started making performance art in the 1990s and his early pieces are highly lyrical as in Dialogue with Water and Golden Sunshine. After 2000, the massiveness of his work seems inconsistent with his pursuit of ineffectiveness and inaction, but actually it reflects his romanticism and broadness. In The Rock Tours around Great Britain, for example, he traveled about 3500 kilometers on foot over a hundred days along the perimeter of Great Britain, to return a rock to where he picked it up randomly on the coast. Another example, his One Rib, presents directly the intertexture of romanticism and flesh and blood.