Description
My work centers around painting historical photographs to reflect on history, collective trauma, memories, and commemorative experiences. The photos to which I refer in my works are often from appalling historical events such as the ‘Spanish Flu’, World War II, and the Chinese Civil War. In order to communicate the complex sentiments of these images, I depict a mixture of surreal and psychological aspects in my work, such as fear, isolation, obscurity, confusion, and sometimes even humor. Through my interpretation, in conjunction with the fusion of feelings and emotions from these photographs, I create a visual experience where my viewers and I are able to connect with history. By selecting a section of the original image and enlarging it on my canvas, the instantaneous photographic record is sublimated into something monumental and profound that transcends time and space.
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