Exhibit the dragons: how security guard’s drawings made him a celebrity
Part-time artist dreams of taking works to exhibitions in Beijing and Shanghai
A security guard in central China will hold his second solo art exhibition this month, with his drawings of dragons having made him something of a celebrity in Hunan province.
Jiang Shengxi had created more than 200 works featuring all kinds of dragons in his spare time since he started working as a security guard at Hunan University in Changsha, the provincial capital, the Xiao Xiang Chen Bao newspaper reported on Sunday.
Jiang had been fond of dragons since he was a child, the report said. He drew in a small security booth at the university during the day when he was not busy registering visitors or patrolling the building.
After a solo exhibition of more than 90 drawings at the university library in 2016, Jiang will exhibit more works in his home city of Huaihua, in western Hunan, late this month.
“This is something I would never even dare to imagine before,” Jiang was quoted as saying. “I hope I can start my own art studio in the future and make a living from drawing.”