Artist Statement 2nd Draft

I love arts. When I was a elementary school student, I found that drawing is the way that I can express my emotion. Now, I express myself to others through painting. When I do painting, I can strongly feel my mind and body are joyful. For me, the factions of arts are expressing feelings and making people happy.

I love making arts, also I like to see arts. I read arts magazines, books and arts albums and those are the important resources for me. I got informations not only by reading, but also feeling. Recently, I visited US, Japan and China to see their real contemporary arts and of course I learned a lot. Besides, I try to learn something from other artists and I think it is the best way to improve my arts.

Besides, I am a pop culture addict. For instance, I like Japanese comics, animations, Hollywood movies, action figures and video games. When I enjoy those pop cultures, I feel happy. Most of my inspirations are coming from them. Those inspirations are very helpful when I am doing my paintings and drawings. The reason that I put the subculture symbols in my painting is I want to record the contemporary phenomenon. As a contemporary artist, I want to show people what happen right now in the 21^th century. Also, I can use pop culture symbols well because I am very familiar with them. When people see my artwork, I want to make them feel funny. Using those subculture things can make my painting full of fun.

I had great influence form the Pop Art movement. Andy Warhol, who is the master of Pop Art, he tried to make common things becoming arts and let everyone can enjoy arts. I am totally agree with this idea, I want to make art that everybody can understand and enjoy easily. In my paintings, I use figurative objects and characters, also, I presented by flat style with bright colors. I am try to make my artwork more dramatic and memorable

However, the art environment in Taiwan is not popular, and being an artist in Taiwan is not easy. I am glad that I still can doing arts right now, and I hope that I can keep doing it.