My work starts as a form of journal focusing on the people I see and interact with. It draws upon both my internal and external environments as a I create the pieces. I bring up issues about interpersonal distances and the barriers, both internal and external, that keep people apart. This also causes human desires and fears to feature prominently in my work as I examine the struggles that they cause internally and externally during human interactions.

My portraiture work, such as Hsin-Yao, deals with the barriers that arise between friends and acquaintances. Many times these are small issues that through normal humans fears become almost tangible walls. The wax creates both a visual and physical barrier between the viewer and the subject. This obscuration creates a real sense of the distance between the subject of the artwork and myself. Much of my other works revolves around strangers. These are people I would like to meet, however, because of fear, societal pressure and other issues, this will never happen. We pass each other and neither affects the others path. They fade into and out of my life. I use quotes and my own words to lend a different perspective on seeing these strangers.

Using drawing techniques such as lithography and etching appeals to me because of the directness and minimalist nature monochromatic drawing allows. I incorporate these drawing processes with text to reference the Chinese tradition of the incorporation of the visual and poetic arts. Language can lead to a different type of understanding then purely visual things. It can also be used to obscure the true meaning and create barriers if the viewer is unable to read the language presented. This lends itself to the idea of barriers between people inherent in my work.