“Night Swims Series” (2017-20) is a project which continues my journey to dive into the dark waters of the human psyche. The characters depicted in the paintings reflect a state of feelings including isolation, solitude, uncertainty and fear.  The reflections dancing off of the dark waters surface are a symbolic description of these hidden emotions. They mirror the feelings of the characters as if they were like nocturnal animals that are only comfortable to feed and hunt in the dark.  

It was my first experience swimming at night in Lantau Island, Hong Kong in summer 2016 which inspired this project. It is here where I swam far away from the artificial streetlights of the Island, where one could observe the horizon of darkness between the sky and sea. Here was an endless darkness with different layers of black colours. This variety of black colours is also a material study for my colour palettes used in this project. 

“She now looked down into this pool or sea in which everything is reflected- and, indeed, some say that all our most violent passions, and art and religion, are the reflections which we see in the dark hollow at the back of the head when the visible world is obscured for the time. “

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando (1928).

“Night had come - night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day. It was not necessary to faint now in order to look deep into the darkness where things shape themselves and to see in the pool of the mind.”

Night Swims 

“The Black Series: Night Swims” (2017) is an oil painting project which continues my journey to dive into the dark waters of the human psyche. The characters depicted in the paintings reflect a state of feelings including isolation, solitude, uncertainty and fear.  The reflections dancing off of the dark waters surface are a symbolic description of these hidden emotions. They mirror the feelings of the characters as if they were like nocturnal animals that are only comfortable to feed and hunt in the dark.  

It was my first experience swimming at night in Lantau Island, Hong Kong in summer 2016 which inspired this project. It is here where I swam far away from the artificial streetlights of the Island, where one could observe the horizon of darkness between the sky and sea. Here was an endless darkness with different layers of black colours. This variety of black colours is also a material study for my colour palettes used in this project. 

Black Series: Night Swims Sketches, 2017

Drawing: Pencil on Paper.

The story follows Lily’s self-discovery process and unfolds her hidden memories from her unpleasant childhood.

Dear Lily Project Sketches, 2016

The new body of works from the Wandering Islands exhibition are made of oil painting on transparent acrylic boards, and are combined with a series of installations in the exhibition space. Each work is a singularly wandering islands in the waves of the sea. 

The present exhibition is one of the projects for her Master of Arts at the Wimbledon College of Arts, London. Here she studies the relationship between ready-made, mass-produced memorabilia and the memory of a location.
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In these wandering islands, you might experience or touch the memorable objects on the list below:

Architectural sketch with incorrect position of space/ Staring eyes with beach-blue colour/ Photograph of a cat praying to a full moon/ Butterfly covered with leafy green colour inside a plant/ Someone’s garden as a graveyard scattered with all kinds of dolls/ Shrine with perpetually unfinished construction/ Beggars covered with a blanket in wintry ice-cold Paris/ Endless walking tunnel below the Thames River/ Sound from the video of a sunset scene at Rhine river/ The boy who lives in the island.

These memories are a mix of truth and imagination about this and parallel worlds.

 Wandering Islands Series, 2015

This includes two works :
1) June, 1993, Hong Kong, Oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm , 2014
2) June, 2008, Surrey, Oil on canvas, 150 x 100 cm, 2015

Rooftop Series (2014-2015)

“Dear Lily Project” (2016) includes twelve paintings and installations: The furniture, wooden sculpture, paintings are the memorable objects from the fictional story of Lily’s life.

The whole installation will walk you the hidden fears and struggles of Lily within her 7 to 21 years old. The story follows Lily’s self-discovery process and unfolds her hidden memories from her unpleasant childhood.

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