Life Is Memory
Missing
Oil on canvas | 48 x 60 in
San Francisco, 2024
Quite
Oil on canvas | 36 x 48 in
San Francisco, 2024
It’s Me.
Oil on canvas | 36 x 48 in
San Francisco, 2024
Take Show
Oil on canvas | 36 x 48 in
San Francisco, 2024
This painting comes from my deep longing for my father who passed away many years ago. I depicted the last moment of his life after a car accident, when I sat by his hospital bed feeling helpless. I thought I would cry and scream, but in that moment there was only despair and silent numbness. After losing my father, I could not esca
In this work, I used a large amount of blue. For me, blue represents the soul, weaving life and death together. The flowing and interwoven brushstrokes carry my memories and merge my emotions into the canvas. Through this painting, I try to explore the subtle and profound connection.
This work comes from my childhood experience of being sexually harassed by an older man. In that moment, I felt my body confined and my voice silenced. Fear forced me into silence, and that silence itself was not empty but a form of imposed compliance. It reflects the deep-rooted gender inequality in society and the way women’s bodies are objectified and controlled within systems of power.
The distorted body and restrained posture in the painting symbolize the condition of women under patriarchy—like a fish on the cutting board, both an object of gaze and a powerless sacrifice. The clash of colors and forms conveys both suppressed pain and an act of resistance. This painting is not only a return to personal memory but also a critique of social structures, urging people to confront hidden traumas.
This painting is my declaration of independence, marking the awakening of feminist thought. The female body is no longer an object of the gaze, but a symbol of subjectivity.
The apple, once linked to the story of temptation and original sin, is redefined here as the possession of women’s strength and self-awareness. Pink, usually seen as soft and submissive, becomes bold and powerful—a declaration of freedom, independence, and emotional energy.
Through loose and flowing brushstrokes, I try to express a force that refuses silence, and also to respond to the ongoing struggle of women for equality and freedom throughout history and today.
This painting shows a moment of relaxation. My daily bath is the time when I can face my inner self and search for my true identity.