It's like the Chinese poets who through their poetry express the relationship between the scenery and themselves. "For Cheng, painting self-portraits is a process of recording his appearance and searching for himself, in which there are no predetermined answers.
就像中國的詩人，在詩作的意境中，表現出作者和景物之間的對應」，鄭在東覺得，自畫像對他而言，是一種自我面貌的記錄與尋找的過程，沒有已經設定好的答案。