Performance Art Video (black and white), 8 mins 24 secs, Germany Weimar, Date of completion: 2024

Stretching chewing gum as facing emotions from relationships. The unpleasant emotions brought about by a torturous long-distance relationship, are symbolised by chewing gum, which is stretched from the mouth to different areas of the face, strangling the wrist and neck. The limitations, sense of powerlessness and isolation, and the conviction that things are utterly out of reach. Similar to chewing gum, relationships have sweetness and freshness at first, but no matter how much freshness is added, after chewing and stretching, they eventually become tasteless and bland. However, the gum was still eaten, one after another, despite being aware that it is eaten just to be spat out. It seemed as though it was destined to be. Despite all the negative aspects on oneself, the choice is to accept and coexist with the challenges of relationships. The same as going back to chewing through all of the extended chewing gum. This viscous cycle is symbolised by the clip’s repetition. This is the cycle of a relationship: masticate, relish, rupture, amendment, hatred, acceptance.

凌波仙子 

2023

Materials: Glass (fusing and slumping), Painting Reel, Fishing lines, Size: 85 x 32 x 30 cm, Year: 2023 ; Narcissus (Calendula Silver Platform) Materials: Glass blowing vase, Size: 10 x 12 x 10 cm, Date of completion: 2023

Limbo fairy is also the alias of narcissus in Asia countries. The pure and clean flowers of daffodils are supernatural, elegant and fragrant, and they are particularly moving, just like Lingbo Fairy stepping on water, so they are called limbo Fairy. I think this alias is fit for the setup and arrangement of my work, The hanging part of the plant just like a flying fairy, and the spotlight also created a shining vibe for the main piece . I would like to present the Gongbi Painting in a three dimensional way, as traditional Gongbi painting mostly drawing in realistic style, so I want to use glass to present the smooth gradient of colours (like Gongbi painting). On top of the blowing glass is the engraved Gongbi painting of narcissus, as both (narcissus and glass) shared similar characteristic like clear, pure, noble. This project would like to explore more on mixed media and observation skills, like using glass to recreate paintings.

Ceramic, wood board,  2023, 80 x 20 x 12 cm (whole piece)

This project explores the idea of how a relationship degrades over time. I utilised the unique hardening characteristics of ceramic clay to convey a relationship that has ended due to struggles with bonding and adjusting. The hardening of the clay felicitously symbolises the diminishing ability to change and adjust for each other in a relationship as it gets gradually more difficult to shape and combine. The cylinders in the state of raw clay is easily adjustable, depicting the beginning of a relationship where both people are willing and capable to change for better accommodation of each other. As the clay naturally proceeds to become leather hard, it becomes challenging to piece together, which the process will inevitably introduce cracks and breakages to the shape. This represents the arguments that appear in a relationshiphe broken pieces represents the irreparable cracks despite having "solved" an issue within a relationship. The final phase features one single bone dry cylinder with visible distortions which represents the emotional scars after a relationship, and that two people have separate. The phases featured in this piece are preserved through spraying of water, which naturally leads to moulding of the softer clay, this process symbolises no matter how hard someone attempts to maintain the state of the relationship, the underlying flaws will still inevitably surface.