My inner world is completely separated from reality. I never wanted to make my works mirror the current society. Instead, I intentionally created an artificial sense which reflects my desire to break free from reality. By introducing a feeling of stillness to my paintings, I aim to evoke a cosmic nostalgia which surpasses the difference in time, space and people.

 

The boy and girl figures in my works are the same as the ball-jointed dolls I make in real life to me. They are models. They are shadows of mine. Occasionally, I would seek out nostalgic objects related to my childhood memories and place them with curtains, carpets and leather chairs in the world I paint. I use this process of stage designing and building to glorify my own memories. I am not trying to paint my actual childhood, but to fabricate an idealized childhood, to re-write my own childhood memories.

 

I used to love hiding in closets and peak out through tiny holes when I was little. I also took sneak peaks through key holes into other rooms. I have been obsessed with the relationship between the seer and the seen.

 

In contrast to the nature of photography which cut out a specific moment out from the flow of time, my works condense everything in my spiritual world into a frozen eternal moment.

 

I love western classical paintings especially from the renaissance. Surrealism, Dadaism, Fantastical literature and Architectural drawing have all been my influence too.