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Burning Car


2022
Oil painting on Canvas
72 x 36 inch


‘A painting of friends drinking wine on the balcony with a burning car wearing a pair of glasses sitting on the sofa. I once saw a car burning by the roadside during the late night; the bright flame reminded me of the novel ‘Golden Pavilion’ and Yukio Mishima’s theory of finding beauty in destruction.’







I WANNA CRY “我想哭”


2022
Wood, Acrylic board, LED screen, Wax
30 x 20 in



‘A fake AC condenser with the oracle bone script Chinese character for 'I WANNA CRY' and an LED pixel screen that displays the modern character of 'I WANNA CRY’. A documentation of this enduring, underlying impulse of wanting to cry.’







Foot-licking Simulator


2022
   Plywood, Wires, Crystal sticker, Acrylic, Air-dry clay
15 x 20 x 8 in





Becoming a Doorman:

the Answer to Exsistential Crisis

2021
Mix media
8 x 8 x 5 in

(Sounds On!)







Born Hazard


2021
Digital Collage





Spring Instrument


2020
Acrylic, metal springs
33 x 33 x 10 in