My family and I are nomads. In my early years, we moved from China to Indonesia to Singapore. On my own, I moved to Japan as a teenager, and now to the United States for university. Throughout my life, I have existed without context, without a grounded culture or the attached traditions. As a result, I feel a deeper connection with universal and spiritual narratives, rather than the intricacies of material objects and relationships.
My work deals with the experiences that come from a physically untethered upbringing: from unceasing self-reinvention and isolation to a nostalgic desire for something novel. I paint undefined spaces and ceremonies of transition that are removed from their context. In these places that transcend material borders, I feel most at home.
