In his Morning Exercise in New York series, Li Jin documents his morning excursions during his month-long stay in New York in the Fall of 2019. In number VII of the series, Li Jin is clearly captivated by a young, African-American woman. He deftly employs the tools of traditional portraiture—namely achieving a “resonance with his subject’s energy” and capturing the “bone structure” of his subject’s figure—to chuanshen “transmit the spirit” of his anonymous admiration. Li Jin adds himself in the background observing his subject from a distance while she herself appears innocent of his interested gaze.