My work mirrors the bizarre fantasy of Surrealism with subconscious subjects and collective experience. I like the challenge of creating odd scenarios by consciously selecting subject matter with cultural and ethical connotations. This also challenged my audience not necessarily with their own oddity but with the introduction of their soothing ethical familiarity into unsettling circumstances.
Recently, I created a series of work dedicated to the ethical issue of animal-rights; this is all inspired by my everyday life. In adoption of the language of childhood innocence, I imagine non-existed world, wise animals dominated the society and human is for food and clothes. It is like a twist of reality where creatures speak from a place of childlike honesty about the state of mankind and our relationships with ourselves, each other and our past. I am particularly interested in drawing animals in large scale by pencil because it is modest and honest tool that I have been using since I was young.
My studio practice is very much influenced by my childhood memory. I can still remember the joy of drawing odd creatures from my own imagination when I was a kid. As an adult, this childhood innocence lost in nowhere but when I pick up the pencil and draw, the joy came back to me.
To me the world is full of wonders and awes, this is what I put in my art and I believe if I follow my heart with burning passion and desire, success will follow.
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