Tang Shaohan captures objects from everyday landscapes to establish a personal sense of order in his paintings. Departing airplanes, manifesting hands, blank flags, and cameras are common symbols within his visual lexicon. These elements navigate between image and representation according to the narrative or non-narrative demands of the artworks. They coalesce through a phased process, creating a disorderly syntax in the paintings that allows for multi-threaded viewing.

Tang Shaohan is wary of establishing a coherent visual expression at the recognition level. Instead, he meticulously constructs labyrinthine storytelling and layered syntax. Diverging from cinematic montage, in his paintings, clusters of objects can simultaneously appear on the flat surface, granting viewers the freedom to choose their reading sequence. Equally
significant as the arrangement of objects is the spatial distance between them, compelling the viewer to make visual and cognitive leaps. This hesitation in choosing the next focal point, or being confined by
the nascent tone in the mind, is a deliberate disorientation.