Installation

I like to create installations because they let ideas live in space. Through scale, layering, and interaction, I can build environments that reflect internal tension, reclaim erased stories, or invite reflection. Whether it's through puppetry, sculpture, or light, installation gives me the freedom to make thought physical; to turn abstract questions into something you can walk around and observe from different angles.

The Big Eyes

80cm x 70cm, acrylic on paper, 2025

This piece uses the story of Margaret and Walter Keane to explore how attention and credit are unevenly distributed in art history. Margaret was known for her big-eyed figures, while Walter falsely claimed authorship. Their connected heads symbolize linked fame but unequal credit. Her slight turn signals erasure; his forward gaze, visibility. Using Margaret's imagery re- centers her as maker.

first learned about the story of Margaret and Walter Keane during my summer program at Brown University and was shocked to discover how often, in art history, the work attributed to male artists was actually created by their female partners, while the men were credited as the official authors. This inspired me to create a piece centered on the Keanes, using their story as a starting point to reveal the ways in which women artists have been rendered invisible throughout art history.

Research

Sweet Tooth

70cm x 60cm, mix medium, 2025

Since childhood, Ive loved candy. Inspired by stage design and Freudian psychoanalysis, I created a three-layered installation exploring how desire is shaped under social control. A saturated pink core represents potent sugar cravings (id), drifting dream-like forms evoke the subconscious (ego), and a looming gray hand embodies the superego that restrains. The work resists flatness. It flips, folds, and interrupts itself, mirroring how identity is assembled through internal friction.

Layer1: Raw sugar cravings (id)

Layer2: Subconscious ( ego )

Layer3: Social Constrains ( superego )

L' ensemble

50cm x 40cm, mix medium, 2025

Based on the theatrical "flocking" technique, this installation uses dynamic shadow puppetry formations to explore tensions between individuality and collectivity. Reflecting my shift from silent participant in China to leader in Canada, it demonstrates how leadership can emerge through repetition, gesture, and time.

Planet Rock

80cm x 60cm, oil on canvas, 2024

This memory piece reconstructs the feeling of sitting with my father listening to rock records on vinyl. Drawing on childhood album cover motifs, I built the image around a single record imagined as a planet, orbiting a private world of sound. A projected video casts shifting shadows of my father and me dancing, moving gently across the surface.