Artist Statement

和 - Finding Inner Peace in a Noisy World. 

My artworks are a solution to my feelings. When I feel anger, distress, scared, or lust, I need to remind myself to remain calm. If not, the overwhelming emotion consumes me to the point that it makes me tired, and my mind starts spinning again and again as soon as I recover. I can only be free from such an emotional cage once I accept what is causing me to have the emotion and make peace with it. The action of making artwork is my meditation, to empty my mind by repeating the same movement. Motifs inspired by nature hidden in the city remind me to appreciate small things and keep my spirit under pressure. My style represents my cultural background, to remind myself where I come from. After all, inner peace is more important than ever, considering all of the noise from the contemporary world: technology, social media, and an infinite source of information that is forced into our brains. The biggest worries are about nothing relevant to our physical lives, but rather about countries having another war, or anxiety created by a fictional reality on social media. It is so easy to be lost in self-identity because everyone claims that you can change who you want to be. This is why I create artwork: to save myself from the negative emotions that I consume from the world. Remind me of gratitude, accept the reality, and make peace within myself. If you feel a little peaceful moment from my artworks, then my artworks stand for you.