Artist’s Statement:
Although I started learning and practicing visual art when I was nine, I truly found my passion for art two years later when I visited the largest religious monument in the world—Angkor Wat in Cambodia. One morning, as the egg-yolked sunlight dipped the monument in golden honey, the lifeless structure transformed into a lively person, chanting ancient tales of people who passed through those arches. I experienced how art could influence, and be influenced by, nature. Since then, I have strived to conjure similar impacts.
Through numerous hours of working with acrylic, graphite, and watercolor, I gradually realized that nothing can stop an artist’s expression on the canvas. Whether it is an acrylic portrait seeping through the canvas or penciled swans swimming in a surreal dream, art is a kind of expression. Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein said, “The limits of language are the limits of my world,” but art transcends language. It speaks to our individual and communal aesthetics. Ask why everyone can sense pride and grievance in Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People and tender love in Klimt’s The Kiss. The answer is art.
The expression of what cannot be defined yet defines us all is why I am drawn to art.
