October 2019
This canvas illustrates a narrative of burnout. Adrenaline is a hormone which can be translated into excitement or anxiety depending on an individual’s mental state; the darker colours emit small explosions of colour, corresponding to the bursts of excitement and anxiety in life, and the brighter colours express the pure joy so rarely felt. It is bright, but temporary. The image is slowly torn apart by a gold streak and cannot be repaired. It is burnout, but it is also hope that there is something, or someone, better waiting for you.
2018
My family’s celebrations of Lunar New Year got me particularly inspired to paint a portrait of such celebrations. While I largely enjoy delicious food with the extended family and red pockets, Firecracker looks beyond the joy of a food-centric community. What most people don’t stop to think about is the pollution made by setting off firecrackers – the fleetingness of a good show produces squalor no one likes to think about. The gold represents that glamour and the orange, a “polluted red”.
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