After performing a ceremonial burning of drawings meant for the dead, transforming paper and pastel into ash and smoke, I have found that my art practice is starting to tie into my cultural practice of ancestral worship. From the meditative experience that is painting, I create psychological landscapes that explore spirituality, memory, and time. I use collaged imagery in my paintings to represent the chaotic nature of memory and the transformation of entities.
The addition of rainbows in my work refers to 1) themes of transformation; 2) the maximalist Cantonese aesthetic I grew up with; and 3) how I have grown into my own disco ball brand of queerness. I collage together images of home, images of altars, with queer symbols that are not necessarily queer, as a way of exploring the many facets of identity, and how we may transform throughout a lifetime.
