Watercolours - On The Way
Over the past two years, the pandemic has led to cancellations of my travel plans. Therefore, I cherished my road trip around Los Angeles last May 2022.
During the trip, I captured the stairway of entering the warship, boarding an airplane and safari cart in the zoo, taking the train to the museum, and waiting at traffic lights in the car. I focused on the space between the different transportation, where people may be ignored in their travels. Still, I saw disorientation and alienation from being in another place. My work also illustrates the windows and invokes another perspective, expressing the segregation and alienation between people sitting on public transportation during the pandemic.
Looking out of the window is a distraction from our souls, separation, and detachment from the people around us. This relationship between people and the environment shimmers under the light of the moving window, and I attempt to capture this moment with a photographic lens and watercolor. The emotion of alienation between people changes subtly, as I do. For example, in the safari cart and the car, the light and temperature changes bring the ambiance to warmth.
Watercolours - Empty Room
I explored a creative way of combining painting and metafiction through Mu Xin's empty room. The text is fragmented and disjointed, with phrases and sentences jumbled together, reflecting the disorientation and confusion that the narrator experiences. Through the combination of translucent storyboards and re-editing the story, these paintings express vague happiness: a fictitious tale of love during war. By playing with the relationship between language and image, the piece invites viewers to reflect on their own experiences of emptiness and isolation and consider art and language's role in exploring these complex emotions.