Title: A Masked Society
Medium: Pencil
Dimensions: 18" x 29"
Date Completed: August 2020
Additional details: COVID-19, more than a plague, has become a phenomenon and conceptually a horrific carnival of masks and body languages which redefined our social behaviors. It is a site of political polarization, class conflicts, racial profiling, and semantic breakdown. This drawing may be an exaggeration, but I find it emotionally resonant with the current climate.
Medium: Pencil
Dimensions: 18" x 29"
Date Completed: August 2020
Additional details: COVID-19, more than a plague, has become a phenomenon and conceptually a horrific carnival of masks and body languages which redefined our social behaviors. It is a site of political polarization, class conflicts, racial profiling, and semantic breakdown. This drawing may be an exaggeration, but I find it emotionally resonant with the current climate.
Title: The Black Cat
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions: 20" x 24"
Date Completed: September 2020
Additional details: Black cats symbolize a bad omen foreshadowing death, misfortune, and a forthcoming end. In this piece, a black cat is at a stand off with a faceless child, nonchalantly planted on the ground. By juxtaposing horror with innocence, death with birth, I wanted to bring out the post-apocalyptic mood I have felt as of recent events of the pandemic.
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions: 20" x 24"
Date Completed: September 2020
Additional details: Black cats symbolize a bad omen foreshadowing death, misfortune, and a forthcoming end. In this piece, a black cat is at a stand off with a faceless child, nonchalantly planted on the ground. By juxtaposing horror with innocence, death with birth, I wanted to bring out the post-apocalyptic mood I have felt as of recent events of the pandemic.
Title: The Roaming Cats
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions: 28" x 32"
Date Completed: September 2020
Additional details: As an extended exploration of the pandemic series, this piece presents multiple cats and a child playing alone. No face is visible. Here I explore the eerie gap between horror and innocence, death and birth, where the eye, unable to resolve any expression, may wander around the bounds of light and the lack thereof.
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions: 28" x 32"
Date Completed: September 2020
Additional details: As an extended exploration of the pandemic series, this piece presents multiple cats and a child playing alone. No face is visible. Here I explore the eerie gap between horror and innocence, death and birth, where the eye, unable to resolve any expression, may wander around the bounds of light and the lack thereof.
Title: A Forthcoming Void
Medium: Mixed Media Sculpture (Clay, wires, and wood)
Dimensions: 11.5" x 18" x 15.5"
Date Completed: January 2021
Additional details: Chairs are used to rest our legs, but in doing so, emphasize tiredness, loneliness, and loss. They remind us of our occupation and of our home simultaneously. In this piece, I placed a stack of miniature chairs inside a sculpted cat. As part of the pandemic series, the piece shows a symbol of bad omen digested with chairs, and it sits between horror and innocence, a place of loss.
Medium: Mixed Media Sculpture (Clay, wires, and wood)
Dimensions: 11.5" x 18" x 15.5"
Date Completed: January 2021
Additional details: Chairs are used to rest our legs, but in doing so, emphasize tiredness, loneliness, and loss. They remind us of our occupation and of our home simultaneously. In this piece, I placed a stack of miniature chairs inside a sculpted cat. As part of the pandemic series, the piece shows a symbol of bad omen digested with chairs, and it sits between horror and innocence, a place of loss.
Title: Ephemeral
Medium: Watercolor, welded wire mesh, and white gloves
Dimensions: 34" x 34"
Date Completed: March 2021
Additional details: Children are expected to carry on the future, and the adults inevitably rely on them. With the pandemic, the pressure is violently intensified. As how preciously adults treat children, they approach children to control and to sanitize away the imperfections. The piece features disposable and soiled gloves.
Medium: Watercolor, welded wire mesh, and white gloves
Dimensions: 34" x 34"
Date Completed: March 2021
Additional details: Children are expected to carry on the future, and the adults inevitably rely on them. With the pandemic, the pressure is violently intensified. As how preciously adults treat children, they approach children to control and to sanitize away the imperfections. The piece features disposable and soiled gloves.