Artist Statement

As an artist who traditionally paints still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, my work touches heavily on the emotions and images of everyday life. By focusing on subjects, I often arrange the space properly to reveal everyday situations. My works reveal identities, places, times and memories and reveal the very shape of our lives.

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 Most of my works are deeply inspired by the Japanese manga and the teachers who taught me. While developing my technique, I found myself obsessed with realism and surealism because most of my work is very detailed. With a curious nature and love to experience new things, I often use many different materials to create different textures on the surface of realism paintings. New materials that I have experienced throughout my academic career are oil paints, pastel colors, charcoal, and acrylic colors. The skills I use in all my works are chiaroscuro, color theory, color temperature, and alla Prima. I use these two techniques to emphasize the color contrast between light and shadow and blend colors directly to create depth and subtle gradations. I would build up thin layers of colors together while they are not completely dry to create depth and space to emphasize texture and light.

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For me, family is everything. I cherish every moment with my family. The feelings of reverence, nostalgia and nostalgia for the idyllic images commonly found in Asian families are a source of abundant inspiration. I use my deep color inspiration for each piece to build layers of color and create different textures on the surface. Landscapes, still lifes and portraits were chosen for the subjects around me to depict a realistic aspect of Asian people's daily life or activities. I use my deep color inspiration for each piece to build layers of color and create different textures on the surface. Landscapes, still lifes, and portraits were chosen for subjects around me like my family to describe their realistic side of life or daily activities. Following a random layout with a quick pastel color sketch based on my emotions while observing my family's daily life, I used that sketchpad and detailed it with oil color. I use color, light and shadow to amplify genuine human emotions and psychological actions and the depth of the whole picture to reveal the story. To depict realistic form and emotional precision, I use multiple thin layers of oil paint to achieve depth, richness, and brightness. I want viewers to put their memories in there and cherish every moment they spend with their family.

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Finally, I try to develop a spatial setting perspective for portraits, landscape paintings, and still lifes that are more harmonious and interesting in composition. Going forward, I will be experimenting with watercolors and exploring digital to see the difference between everyday beauty and a different technique.