Location: Taipei, Taiwan

“Most of my ideas arise from reflections or sentiments in my life. More specifically, these drawings document the existential crisis of a dissenter over the years, giving birth to the current theme of ‘problematic reality.’ Regarding my aesthetic inclination, I sense a similarity between the music I enjoy and my drawings, though I haven’t sorted this part to the extent that I can explain this connection concisely. I listen to a wide variety of things, I’ve been listening to Animals As Leaders, Ed Harrison (0edit), Hania Rani, Masayoshi Fujita and Yuukai Kenchiku a lot while working recently. And I always enjoy Steve Reich and John Zorn as well. I haven’t focused much on who has influenced my drawing style directly for decades, but I’m naturally drawn to works that are intricately done, and those with a pure, dreamy, and tranquil tone (whether melancholy or comforting). I also appreciate works whose core idea is poetic or satirical. I have been enjoying artworks from artists like René Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico, SillDA and so on. Above all, the most influential artist to me remains Leonardo da Vinci, not because of his style, but for his curiosity and his ability to work freely across various fields. As I also work interdisciplinarily, I find inspiration from various sources not directly related to graphic art. Take science as an example: I am also influenced by Richard Feynman for how he points out the aesthetic dimension in understanding how things work, and by Dmitriy Mendeleyev for demonstrating the importance of finding patterns among things, as well as concepts like mechanical determinism and chaos theory. However, these influences are less evident in my current drawings.”

Inspirations: Animals As Leaders, Ed Harrison (0edit), Hania Rani, Masayoshi Fujita, Yuukai Kenchiku, Steve Reich, John Zorn, René Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico, SillDA,Leonardo da Vinci, Richard Feynman, Dmitriy Mendeleyev