I make paintings to discover what cannot be fully remembered, to hold fragments of experience that were never given weight. Growing up as a Chinese woman, I became aware of how certain histories, experiences, and feelings are often unacknowledged, silenced, or shaped by collective expectation. Moments slip by unmarked, their weight returning only as fragments that linger beyond words. My paintings act as sites of rediscovery, exploring what persists when experience cannot be fully recalled. Stories emerge slowly through accumulation, interruption, and hesitation, discovered in response to the developing surface.

Through painting, I engage with the spaces between presence and absence, between what can be seen and spoken and what is felt, allowing fragments of personal and collective memory to persist. Formal decisions—compression or expansion of space, shifts in brushwork and color—subtly and quietly model the dynamics of family, society, and culture as they are felt and lived. Space and scale are part of this inquiry: larger works invite immersion and bodily engagement, while smaller paintings concentrate attention, emphasizing fragility, restraint, and intimate experience.

In my practice, painting becomes a gesture of preservation and resistance. It does not restore what is lost, but creates conditions in which what was never acknowledged—moments, feelings, or fragments—can be held, reconsidered, and allowed to persist. My attention to memory and experience is shaped not only by personal history, but also by an awareness of broader structures: the ways in which culture, gender, and society shape what is allowed to be felt, recognized, or remembered. Memory is not a fixed past, but something ongoing, contingent, and discovered through the act of painting, shaped by what has been withheld, obscured, or left unspoken.

This project honors my great grandfather and grand uncle, who were both painter that couldn't be able to pursue an artist career because of the turbulences in China. I paint street market scenes, capturing the everyday life that all the people from my hometown encounter everyday. By painting these, I am trying to see the my great grandfather and grand uncle saw with their painters' eyes. 

This is an ongoing project of painte squares that could be installed individually, in pairs, or diffirent groups. To me, each square represents an individual life form, and I paint all of them individually. Then the process of paring or grouping them represents the process of forming a relationship or a group dynamic. The different colors shapes and texture in each painting react to one another, creates different affects and emotions.