Being a nonnative-speaker, I am playing with American idioms and language association in a whimsical way. I attempt to deal with the difficulty of English, and the common words with many associations. Currently, installation works are popular, and it often relies on multiplicity and repetition, and my work is a tongue-in-cheek, parody of installation art.The medium I did recently was watercolor on brown paper coated with gesso. The brown papers were cut into not very acute rectangle and uniform scale to show the casualness. Meanwhile, the images were painted in two different ways: naïve with extremely simple lines and shape, as well as sophisticated with detail and delicate. In addition, to strengthen the connection, I also add the text, the short sentence and repetitional words, in this work. The “Nuts” has four meanings: the first one is tree nuts, the second one is metal nuts, the third one is crazy people, and the fourth one is male sexual organ. This work appears my embarrassment and conflict that I have had met in my daily life, and reflects the difficulty that I have met in learning English. Besides the “Nuts”, the “wiener” was inspired from the similar idea. They have the three meanings: sausage, dachshund, andå the slang for penis.
My work is all about life and some specific moment that what I see and how I feel. I think that the nature of life is painful, why making art so seriously? It's why I make art in a funny and playful way. I attempt to show my humor in my work. All I concerned about is based on my personal experience.
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