“What?!," a very common question, can be either a polite welcoming or a brief question asked abruptly after a moment of introspection trying to understand the intention of another person.
My creative inspiration comes from moments and objects from everyday life, and so too does the proposition of this work originate from a conversational line or an opening phrase extracted from our daily lives. In fact, this work gradually reflects various experiences of simply living. The work shows inconspicuous details, over-exaggerated news, soap operas, native dialogue, local accents, and also many different emotions and expressions.
Life may seem boring and even blank from time to time, but for some reason, we cannot take it easy. At times, I wonder what do we pursue while painting? Aside from being a release from the stress accumulated from everyday life, by achieving balance from painting, I observe daily life and hold dialogues with myself to make certain observations of what I have seen with my own eyes: noisy, high-velocity, high-pitched, shocking, ear-piercing, lightning, in silence, elastic, bouncy, ebony, hallow, sentimental, sluggish, husky, stifling, coolish, subtly sweet, slightly spicy, like, distaste, and so forth. What do I want in life? What can I do in life? I select and adjust deliberately. I am trying to answer the questions.
Every exhibition can be seen as a transitional zone of creative process: some are concrete while others are blurry. As a continuation of “Don't forget to pick me up!" of 2010, color blocks are still employed here to delineate assorted emotional states of individual people. Some of the works in this exhibition were created while I spent some time in Brazil during the end of 2010. Ardent but down-to-earth, the local people of Brazil are full of humor and enjoy wearing florescent, brightly, and sometimes saturated colors. This of course is very eye-catching, not to mention complimented by their shining and dark complexion. It is very original, and I integrated this sort of energy into my work. Sketching even the simplest and most straightforward forms of body language delivers a sense of communication and exchange.
