I don’t have much to say about my work, just like I don’t speak much about myself. I use Fine art practice as the journey to help explore and understand life and myself as a living creature. I work with mixed media like sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, photography, and film. The subject matter of my work is based on personal experience and philosophical inquiries. Often, they are my nightmares or illusion, nature or self-analysis. I am open to embracing different kinds of themes if I am interested in them. For example, I set my degree show theme of the Nanjing Massacre.

 

The portfolio is separated into Films; Photography; Fine Art, Digital Art, animation, and my degree show theme A Massacre. As my work includes various range of art forms and themes. You can find more detailed information under the different sections.

 

In my film projects, the sense of loneliness and the inquiry of self-identification are displayed. I combined various forms to tell the story, for example, I inserted animation and stop motion in the film with real acting scenes. My Fine art section has the same core as in film projects but more build-up over time.

 

In my photography section, it is simply my perspective of seeing and sensing the world. The interest is to shoot objects from the old days like the abandoned can sitting on the riverbed, or the faded poster. The subject matter in most of my photography work is people. Even the objects are the main character in the picture, they contain the memory of people. I also shoot some people, who live in the city but seem to be left behind by time.

 

As I mentioned, my work essentially excavates my inner world and exhibits it to the outside world, which usually contains my thoughts or attitude toward the meaning of existence. Nietzsche mentioned that people are not interested in truth but in the 'truth' that satisfies their expectations. In short, they are searching for themselves. Art practice is a process of balancing myself and reality. It encourages me to investigate what I am, how to live, and build the bridge to real life. In other words, seeking my essence. Moreover, the intentional blank space in my work should resonate with audiences from their own memories.

 

Last but not least, my degree show section. It is probably the most important part of my Fine art practice journey as it comes to graduation. Simply, I wanted to play a big topic and risk myself out of my comfort zone for the first time and the last chance to have a historical event as the theme of my Degree Show. All in all, I am satisfied and calm for the results I can achieve, a more detailed statement can be found in the A Massacre section.