Artist Statement

Through my work, I intend to delve into my existence's social and cultural condition, exploring the delicate relationship between outer objects and inner subjects in our time. As an artist, I choose to work primarily with clay, a material that is both malleable and vulnerable. With heat, it transforms, vitrifies, and becomes something rigid and long-lasting. This process mirrors my own existence, where vulnerability and resistance coexist, and where we are all susceptible to decay and change. Tranquility, similar to clay, can only be found through the trial of flame and trauma. I create distorted, surreal forms with light and shadow to acknowledge the vulnerability and susceptibility of our identity. Through deconstruction, I investigate, confine, and confront our role as receptors passively driven by outside stimuli. My work is the omission of my observation over the temporal space amongst the complexity of humanities and the diversity of cultures between the East and the West.

Rhode Island School of Design, M.F.A. 2017

Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, B.A. 2013

Email: zzhustudio@gmail.com