“Pure View” in 2025 has been put on the agenda. Are you ready to draw a new story together?
Time: August 1st – August 10th, 2025
This year,, we will revisit the familiar place from 2018 – Dagaji, Yunnan. Let’s go and see if our children have grown taller, if the pigs of our fellow villagers are selling well, and if the century-old Cloud Academy and the towering tree at the entrance are still shining dazzlingly under the setting sun.
For seven years, we have been keeping an eye on these children. In 2021, we supported the children of Tonghua to hold their own solo exhibitions.
The exhibited works of this event will also embark on a China-Singapore tour exhibition.
2017，Pure View@Dagaji exhibition
The reunion with Dagaji
Dagaji Primary School, located in Dagaji Village, Renhe Town, Maguan County, Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province, is situated in the southwest of Maguan County, close to the border area between China and Vietnam. It is a boarding complete primary school. There are currently over 300 students. 90% of them are of the Miao ethnic group, and the remaining 10% or more are from ethnic minorities such as the Zhuang. Moreover, most of the children are left-behind children.
Seven years ago, we left the unforgettable first step mark of “Tonghua Yujian ®” on this land.
Seven years is enough for a seed to break through the soil and grow into a seedling. The children of the past have grown into teenagers. What are they like now? Have you already walked in the future vision you once drew?
This year we will return to Dagaji:
Echoes of Time: Revisiting the First Batch of Participants in 2018 to Witness How Art Reshapes the Trajectory of Life.
Mutual growth: New and old volunteers create together with children, measuring the changes over the past seven years with their brushes.
Mutual healing: Cities and villages, old friends and new ones, all witness each other’s growth through art.
Art never looks down upon others. It merely whispers softly, “You see, the land remembers all those who live earnestly.”
2017，Pure View@Dagaji
2025 Pure View@Dagaji Schedule
2025.8.1 FRIDAY
Volunteers from major cities around the world have gathered in Yunnan. (Those who need to apply for a visa, please inform Teacher Tonghua.) Let’s head together to the accommodation – Cloud Academy.
2017, Pure View@Dagaji was at Cloud Academy
2025.8.2 SATURDAY
The school gathered. Volunteers introduced themselves to the local children, got to know each other one-on-one, took notes and drew portraits of each other.
Pure View@LiangDeng Children’s mutual portrait paintings
2025.8.3 SUNDAY
Return Visit Day: Forest of Seeds
Invite the children who participated in 2017 (now teenagers) to serve as “art guides”, recall the summer seven years ago and share the changes in their lives.
The veteran volunteers and their former paired friends drew a comparison chart of the growth of “grown-up teenagers” for each other.
2025.8.4 MONDAY
Hiking in the mountains and rice fields, using a mixture of rice husks, stones and soil to imprint the texture of the field ridges.
Redefine the relationship between “art” and “survival” in the folds of nature.
2025.8.5 TUESDAY
Return to the Ah ‘e Printmaking Village to learn the ancient technique of “one cut, one moment” from intangible cultural heritage inheritors and collaborate to engrave the “Time Contrast Printmaking” – Innocence in 2017 vs. Transformation in 2025
Night Chat: Volunteers share stories about traditional handicrafts from their hometowns.
In 2017, the children visited the Ah ‘e Printmaking Village for an investigation
2025.8.6 WENDESDAY
Visit the families of left-behind children.
Observe daily scenes, sketch the remaining warmth of the stove or the dusty toys on the windowsill, draw the features or scenes of your grandparents, and write down the sentence you most want to say to your grandparents or parents.
2025.8.7 THURSDAY
Head to the local market to relive the long-lost warmth of human warmth and the hustle and bustle of daily life.
Try to collage a community map using a combination of materials (rice husks, fishing nets, and various materials available in the market), and press a colorful handprint together in the corner of the work.
2025.8.8 FRIDAY
Collect the broken tiles of the old house and draw paintings on them
2025.8.9 SATURDAY-SUNDAY
Jointly set up the exhibition and write the labels of the works in both Chinese and English together.
Release the balloons filled with wishes and embrace farewell.
Pure View@LiangDeng exhibition site
Pure View@Qi Tai village(Xin Jiang) exhibition site
2025.8.10 MONDAY
The exhibition opened and invited villagers, government representatives and the media to participate.
Pure View@LiangDeng exhibition
2025.8.11 FRIDAY
Return freely.
Pure View@LiangDeng exhibition
The purpose of Pure View®:
• Let art serve as a bridge, enabling children in rural villages and young volunteers from metropolis to discover a different world through children’s pure view and see a better version of themselves.
• Inspire and cultivate children’s observational skills, teach them to uncover the beauty around daily life in the village that might have been overlooked, promote folk and traditional cultures, strengthen their expression and presentation abilities, attract the attention of more knowledgeable individuals to develop the villages, and reduce the number of left-behind children.
• Organize exhibitions for the children, broaden their horizons, inspire their creativity, boost their self-confidence, and make every child feel loved and cared for. The art exhibition not only acknowledges the children’s efforts but also encourage them to strive for improvement.
• Establish more connections between children and others and with nature, reducing feelings of loneliness, stress, and excessive modern entertainment. This way children can reflect on themselves while helping others and contribute to making the world a better place.
We believe that “beauty” is not the privilege of cities, but the instinct for the growth of all things.
There is another truth: What you bring is far less than what you take away.
Requirements for Little Volunteers:
- Have a heart
- Have the ability to take care of oneself and not be afraid of hardship
- Have a team spirit
- Love art
- Love nature
- Good physical condition, free from mental or physical illness
- Accept the school’s arrangement to take turns cleaning the dormitory or the villagers’ homes
- Have the ability to help others
The tasks of the little volunteers:
- Show care to local students and build up their self-confidence
- Observe carefully and sincerely depict people, scenes and feelings
- Share your experiences and observations with local primary school students and open a window to the world
- Understand the local culture and spread it
- Look for what you can help and what you can change
Requirements for Adult Volunteers:
- Logistical support
- Video shooting
- Volunteer teaching
- Assist young volunteers
- Have a team spirit
- Daily meals are handled according to the division of labor of the school
- Bring the necessary medicines for the young volunteers
- Help the teacher share the daily work
- During the project period, be responsible for safety, health and other issues by yourself. For any local issues, please contact the teacher in a timely manner. It can be used to assist the volunteer team regarding the personal safety of left-behind children in their visits and file establishment.
“Pure View@” is a long-term art public welfare project that uses art as a bridge. It is a 1+1=1, one-on-one activity for mutual help and learning.
Pure View@Qi Tai village(Xin Jiang)
Pure View• Da Ga Ji village( Yun Nan)
Pure View@Qi Tai village(Xin Jiang)
Pure View@XIANGXI · LIANGDENG MIAO VILLAGE
Pure View@Bali
Pure View• Da Ga Ji village( Yun Nan), the children’s precious field investigation records
Pure View• Da Ga Ji village( Yun Nan), daily sketching and works
Pure View@Qi Tai village(Xin Jiang), daily sketching and works
Pure View• Da Ga Ji village( Yun Nan), daily sketching and works
Pure View@Bali, daily sketching and works
The true feelings of the participants:
pure view @ Exhibition
Pure View@Da Ga Ji village( Yun Nan) Exhibition
Pure View@Qi Tai village(Xin Jiang) Exhibition
Pure View® Liang Deng Miao Village Exhibition
Each time, there will be a certified exclusive event certificate
“Pure View” initiator
Dr. Jie Li-Elbrächter
Artist, curator, Doctor of Art anthropology, philanthropist, founder of Pupils Meet ®️, mother of three children. He/She studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the Munster Academy of Fine Arts in Germany, the Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts Geneva in Switzerland, Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London, UK, and Fudan University. Since his teenage years, he has gone to remote areas for sketching, painting, investigation and hiking in Tibet many times a year. When his first child was five months old, he crossed India for investigation. Since then, he has taken the children to various countries and regions around the world for investigation, exploration, poverty alleviation and teaching support every year.
“Pure View” Co-initiator
Letian Luan Luna
For over a decade, I have accompanied my mother to various developing countries and regions around the world to conduct research, support local schools and impoverished families, exchange experiences with children from different places, disseminate knowledge and build friendships.
Registration Instructions
Bring your own medical supplies and wilderness survival supplies
★ Prepayment: 8,000 yuan per person
Pure View®️ is a non-profit public welfare project. After the final account details are released, any excess will be refunded and any shortage will be made up
★ For more information, please email info@nothingart.org
Please indicate the registration content:
1. Volunteer’s name, age, location and school
2. Parents’ names, occupations and contact information
3. For senior volunteers, please indicate your special skills and other details
★ Limited spots available. Please keep an eye on the information updates on the NOTHINGART official website.
Fee Notice
The cost includes:
Accommodation, meals, transportation, tickets and insurance throughout the journey in Yunnan
Donate materials
The expenses of students from Yunnan participating in the project during the activity period
Daily catering and accommodation in Yunnan
During the event, water, electricity and gas will be provided to various schools and local households in Yunnan
Admission tickets for visiting places and boat tickets in Yunnan
Exhibition setup, display materials and dismantling in China and Singapore
Certificate and team uniform production
The entire process of recording, photographing and reporting on labor and tools
The cost does not include:
Round-trip air tickets from various places to Yunnan
Other expenses arising from irresistible objective reasons and non-activity items
Details of past expenses:
Details of past expenses:
