2012年春天我去拜访同窗老友厚信,看见他正在把一张张图画纸接起来,在上面画一幅长长的素描稿。画面上是浩瀚的历史场面和林则徐、李鸿章、慈禧等历史人物。他告诉我,他要把鸦片战争以来的一百多年的中国近代历史用油画长卷的形式画出来,我吃了一惊。我的感觉是这是一项浩大工程,非一日之功,我担心他的身体,告诉他曾经有位画家倒在了自己的长卷前,千万要保重身体。 In the spring of 2012, I went to visit my classmate, Hussein, and saw him picking up a piece of drawing paper and drawing a long sketch on it. On the screen are the vast historical scenes and historical figures such as Lin Zexu, Li Hongzhang and Empress Cixi. He told me he was taken aback by drawing an outline of the modern Chinese history of more than a hundred years since the Opium War. My feeling is that this is a vast project, not a single day, I worried about his body, told him that there was a painter fell in front of his scroll, be sure to take care of yourself.