Laguna College of Art + Design

A personal confession can be a meaningful articulation of how individuals are all related

in society, nature and the fundamental aspects of humanity. Those records can give us a deeper

appreciation of life and understanding of who we are and where we live. The relationship

between the identity and environment drastically interact with each other and create uncountable

fears because we are not able to predict how life goes exactly. The fear represented by personal

landscapes such as Costco, freeways, cityscapes or the oceans’ tide pool with water components.

My artwork is an autobiographical exploration through people and spaces from my memory and

experience. These are normally things which I see regularly, know intimately and can treasure an

enigmatic beauty inspiring me to paint them in order to understand how they reflect me. I am

drawn into the activity of painting and through that effort, my memories imprint upon the subject

as the process deepens. In compositions, I juxtapose the divergent landscape from outside and

inside of my memory utilizing both abstract and representational expression. My methodologies

include photographic expression, ideas from time sequence components and certain illustrative

brush strokes from animation techniques, originally derived from ancient Asian paintings with a

blank background which promotes imaginative meditation. Through my personal experience and

background as a woman, Asian, and an artist, who has recently become independent, and

immigrated into a foreign culture, I have been extremely sensitive to fear from every aspect of

the practical world. Expelling concrete anxiety, apprehension from the unconscious is necessary

to recognize and overcome panic. Through the process of constructing a painting with a

projecting mental chaos, eventually the identity of fear will be revealed. My work emerges from

a process of dialogue with memories, people that have influenced me in life with keen

observation of even the most banal and universal human experience.