My practice is mainly inspired by Germaine Koh’s presentation about how she connects her artworks to the current situation and how she emphasizes the importance of paying attention to the minor details.

I am driven by the notion of time and space, ambiguity and clarity, surface and depth, timely and timeless. Photography, as a tool, allows me to stay in certain moments and also communicate with the space through the lens. It has always fascinated me with its ability to defeat time – when our memory fades away, the image is the proof of existence.

Compared to documenting the significant moments, I prefer to explore the subtle and sometimes overlooked moments we encounter every day. I start my work by paying attention to the minor details that surround me. I am fascinated by the forms, line, and shapes and they allow me to make familiar things unfamiliar.

I am also interested in how a picture or an artwork communicates with one’s inner state, emotions, and ideas especially during the pandemic . Photography is a universal language. When viewers look at a picture, they interpret it differently depending on their inner state, identity, culture, and life experiences. Photography creates shift meanings in our mind. I am also inspired by Alfred Stieglitz’s works. He argued that visual art could assume the same nonrepresentational, emotionally evocative qualities as music, and the abstract forms could represent people’s inner state. These works are personal to me, but they are also not exclusive to just me. Everyone can have their interpretations and viewers can reconstruct photographs based on their personal experiences and visual memory.