Time leaves traces of light in our memory

This series of paintings focus on exploring the mixed culture experiences and identities, using photographs and paintings.  As shown in the two light boxes one of them is a very familiar street of Hong Kong and the other a full moon of London night which intent to bring across both a sense of familiar feelings and the feeling of nostalgia.  The two cities becomes one at night and mix in my memories.  I want to use these images to set a place in my works, which is “In between cultures”.  In my paintings, I am tried to combine the paintings and photographs together both technically and conceptually as I painted on the photo transfer and I want to bring out the mysterious and surreal qualities of the photographs in some of my paintings.  I want my paintings to be in a space of exile, a space which the viewer will lose their firm placement of identities and experience a space of unstableness and experience the displacement of in between cultures.

I think my work is related to the New Internationalism, since the communication in this world grows faster many people travel and mix cultures world wide, I think many people can relate to and some are already exploring in that area, artists like Ana Mendieta, Hou Hanru, Sutapa Biswas, Chen Zhen, Lee Bul and so on.