Artist Statement 3

My inspiration of creating come from the ego, I like to explore the relationship between human inner world and the real world, the relationship between human, society and nature. In my creation, I often use images and elements such as clouds, branches, human limbs, water and reflection. These symbols not just have some personal information and language, but also have universal language.

The purpose of my works is to create a space when the viewer stares at it, they can enter a state of meditation and get a complex emotional experience. This experience will be diverse, difficult to summarize, and has a somehow personalized feeling. In this painting, I use the principle of Pareidolia (when random images or sounds are perceived as significant, such as clouds look like the leaves of branches) to give people a vague feeling by interlacing the various elements in the picture. In my opinion, it implies that people would project their subconscious emotions and memories onto objective objects. I hope to use this way to arouse the illusions and emotions of the viewers.

Water, trees and clouds, because of their nature and characteristics, are easy to cause people's pareidolia in life. And they are a part of nature, they are random, uncontrolled and free. The illusion produced by the combination of people's self-consciousness and nature is mysterious, complex and attractive.

Pareidolia is the channel connecting my inner world and reality, and those elements are the key to open the channel. For the viewer, the image in my picture can also cause the illusion of them. This is an interaction between my imagination and the viewer's imagination, and it is the basis for arousing the audience's resonance. On the other hand, these elements all come from nature. They also symbolize nature in my paintings, and water symbolizes origin. I depict these symbols in order to bring the viewer back to a more primitive environment, which is far away from society and material, but closer to essence and nothingness. I hope the audience can find peace and tranquility in my paintings. Human characteristics have always been the archetype of the deformed things in my paintings.

Human body is our container, human is the angle we observe the world, human is the carrier of our contact with the world, exploring the ego can’t do without gazing our body and face. In my works, whether it is the everyday things around me or the natural landscape, they will eventually become part of the characteristics of human beings.