The House That Never Roots
I painted five different movable houses， and presented how the animal residents inside them interact with the space with an animation.
Nowadays, Chinese people are deeply troubled by the housing issue. Most people can hardly afford a house and end up living with people with unmatched lifestyles and personalities. However, Chinese people have a deeply embedded attachment to having a "home" of their own. We strain ourselves to buy one but yearn to escape this social convention at the same time. To present this contradiction, I designed the five houses with weak foundations and the potential to run away at any second. The animals living inside them detest their residences but still depend on them. The five scenes I choose are a slum group housing, a student dormitory, a nursing home for the elderly, an "empty nest" for children, and a family with three generations living together. The forms of the five houses generalize the planned-out life of Chinese from youth to old age
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Yell Without Voice
As the internet world has developed, I have gradually been exposed to more and more topics about the awakening of women's self-awareness. As I studied these ideas and reviewed my own experiences, I realized that breaking barriers is difficult for us. In this project, I explored and mapped out why women's path to self-awakening is so tricky. We have to face external questioning and indifference and struggle with our internal contradictions. In depicting the external conflict, I used a lot of street scenes and buildings as backgrounds to reinforce the dichotomy between reality and women's quest. And when depicting the inner character, I used a lot of chaos and abstract scenes. I set all the characters as animals to diminish their gender identity and hope that the viewer will pay more attention to their environment. At the same time, they add to the sense of grotesqueness in my paintings.
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