Artist Statement

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Art has always been a tool for me to communicate and learn since I was a kid. I believe no matter where I am and what I end up doing make a living, I won’t give up being an artist. Being a part of AAEP, learning more aspects of art, assured my determination even further.

 

I am a visual person. My main medium of artistic expression is photography including film and digital. Photography is an important way for me to record and discover. I always have a camera with me on my journeys. I record not only the lifestyles, attitudes, stories, and moments of where I traveled to, but also my thoughts, my mood, and my inspirations. 

 

My favorite part of the process is the time that I spent with myself lying down on my white sheet and start to sort and think. That is the most creative stage of the entire process, where photos become artworks. I include several layers of cues from obvious cultural dimension to dimensions like my emotions, societal issues, or even philosophy. For the past 3 years, major themes of my artworks are genders, life traces, confusion, and patterns of Nature. For instance, this series of my artwork simply captured different architectural styles from different cultures; more importantly, it is about how objects can be traces of society, objects showing relationships with humans and environment, and of course my nostalgic and homesick emotions.

 

My artworks snapshot ordinary every-day details, scenes, or people that are under diverse cultural backgrounds. I believe differences in culture made those snapshots common for some people but uncommon for others. I believe that it is the difference makes us alike. As an artist, I love to put visual similarities and differences together to demonstrate different subject matters.