Yahon Chang believes that a person’s “face” and “gaze” are critical for the first impression he/she makes. Therefore, he has chosen to use gazes and expressions as his creative media. He combines unrestrained calligraphic lines of the East and the daring colors of Western Fauvism to depict the multilayers of modern-day people’s mixed emotions of joy, anger, sadness, and bliss. The artist has intentionally incorporated a few faces with animalistic appearances. These works are symbolic of human behaviors, such as desire, love, rivalry, and contemplation. They are also subtle indications of certain aspects of people’s internal beings.
— J. J. Shih, Face to Face—MOCA Project, 2011