I saw a Taoist monk hidden in the tree!
November 11, 2022
November 7, 2022
Early morning dream
I often have very vivid and strange dreams with other-worldly sights, sounds, and feels, during which my brain seems to be in a very different mental status from being awake and capable of producing novel ideas. Which made me wonder if I have tapped only a small fraction of my mental power during consciousness.
This is a dream that I partially remembered right before waking up, and quickly drew/wrote down while it was quickly fading. I completed the paintings in the evening via iterative drawing for recall.
November 5, 2022
Catching the moment
Sometimes I need to draw very quickly to capture a moment of sight or mood before the memory fades. Here are two paintings of sunrise and sunset in the same day.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3gkc8dYpJaI
October 23, 2022
The 20th national congress of the CCP closing
Inspired by some recent news, I drew a quick motion graphics and shared it when the events are still fresh.
October 21, 2022
Portrait of a man whose head looks like a shumai
The Chinese prompt worked much less well likely due to the lack of training data.
October 17, 2022
Floor-sweeping old lady
Quick gesture sketch from visual memory of a person I saw during a late afternoon walk.
https://youtube.com/shorts/y7_yoL_a8p4
October 12, 2022
I saw the moon but almost missed the cat
The round bright moon was hard to miss during my evening walk, in sharp contrast to Melon the black neighborhood cat.
October 10, 2022
Custom bone ash urn design
Inspired by life vessels that mixed clay with human bone ashes, I envisioned a custom-designed urn decorated with drawings made by a different composition of bone ashes and clay over the base material.
October 7, 2022
The faces of Ruth Asawa
I felt these faces making expressions when looking at them in the exhibition.