I am a continuous practitioner who is interested in illustration as an expressive method and an emotional medium.
I was born in China and gained my BA in Architecture (Interior Design) at Central Academy of Fine Arts.
My work begins with observations and records of personal experiences and their social surroundings, and outputs my own thoughts and feelings, passing unspoken emotional messages to its audiences.
The idea originates from my complex feelings when witnessing familial experiences of encountering birth, illness or death. These experiences make me feel like I am standing on the boundary between two opposite states of loss or gain.
In my practice, I illustrate invisible complex emotions, thoughts, and psychological projections with visual language, and turn them into visible outer worlds where audiences could immerse in. I created tiny stories with drawings and texts as visual narrative, and introduced structural, spatial visual language to its analysis.
Through my tiny stories, I wish to philosophically reflect and associate complex issues of life and death, which is a common theme that people of all backgrounds would encounter with in their lives, hoping that audiences would resonate with my expressions.
This practice was my first attempt at visualising an abstract concept since the beginning of my RCA studies.
Focusing on the nature of archives and the action of archiving, this project collects and re-categorizes the content of information from selected archives, then repositions the information into a new created triaxial system with the method of analogy and translation. Through mapping and drawing, I try to present and explain an overall structure of archiving in visualized way.
The practice is divided into 3 parts: the map, the diagram and textual catalogue, and with the three different form I am trying to convey a common message, so the elements appeared in different parts are relevant to each other.
