You born with artistic eyes and hardworking hands.

"You born with artistic eyes and hardworking hands." This is what my uncle always says to me when he sees my art. He is the only person doing art in my family before my generation. I think this sentence well described my way of doing art and how art production functions for me personally.

I never see myself as a talented artist since I was a little girl: I don’t have the magic hands which can draw fine shapes or paint the most beautiful pictures. Art was just the little fun thing I can do everyday once I was done with the work my “scientists” parents asked me to do. My eyes were the first camera I had, and the most amazing one. My parents always brought me to the business trip at that time. I saw things, my eyes capturing them, and I would draw them afterward. I was still really bad at remembering and drawing the shape of objects, I’m more sensitive with colors – I felt emotionally attracted to the color of objects as well as I would choose to paint things in certain color to describe my feelings and emotion. I really loved making art in this way. I no longer saw art just the fun thing I can do for joy or "celebration of the freedom", art became a way to express my feelings, my thoughts, how I see and read this world after experience it. However I’m doing this quietly; I treated art very personal and private. I wasn’t comfortable and confident to show or share these works; most of time I’m doing art just for myself.

This self-taught art learning and making system has played important roles throughout my later on art production. My art works have always been visually appealing and pleasing. Most of them are very personal. I was really into photography during high school, taking professional courses and taking photos at every second. Camera like my second eyes, except for it is more objective. I became more confident and open about my art works . The joy of collecting gorgeous images, catching and sharing beautiful things I can see in this world with other people was the major motivation for me to do art.

I have always thought it was how far I could go in the art world. Until my first studio art class with Allen who had opened many doors for me in the art world. We were learning about using and designing space through various art forms and media. Since then, "art" for me no longer translated as a noun, but a verb: the processing of producing art (both physically making it and mentally forming it) became incredible important to me. It was also the time when I began to recognize and use art as a way to address social and culture subjects and issues.

This whole new art journey started with my experimental with different kinds of media and art forms, including video art, sculpture, installation, and recently print making. Most my art address issues of identity and gender, and recently works on sustainable art and environmental design. Besides the beautiful images, there should be something else people can get from my art pieces, maybe something meaningful? beneficial? influential? Art, eventually became a way for me to communicate with the outside world as well as the form I could create for people to interact with each other.