Suspended Self

In this installation, I designed an open, disassembled house inspired by my personal taste: a bright pink staircase, a lemon yellow refrigerator, pine green roof, salmon pink ladder on the roof, bathtub, red slide and patchy exterior all built onto a platform with long supporting pillars. Mixed with a few whimsical elements, the objects included in the house are what I deemed to be crucial parts of a house. Lacking most of its walls, half of its roof, and a door, this structure has many voids and seems incomplete yet clearly has its own unique, quirky style. I constructed this structure to reflect my self-image: in the process of establishing itself. However, the scrappy facade of the house indicates that the house also suggests the eternally fluctuating and variable nature of one’s self-identity. The pink staircase—despite it leading to nowhere—symbolizes my ambition and vigor. The rich color scheme manifests my penchant for using flamboyant colors in my art. Below the house lies pages from Convenience Store Woman, a novel by Sayaka Murata, that most resonated with me as it shaped my perception of self-awareness, humanity’s incessant crusade for uniformity, and revel in what makes my heart beat.

        mixed media, 29*15*14(in), 2021