Through the process of painting, those visual references are often further transformed into the materialized painting medium. I translate the visual grammar of the source images into the matter of paint and painting language, allowing the paint to reclaim these images through loose brush strokes, drippings and layers of paints.

The singular images in Fake Tales from Somewhere is an attempt of having a lighter connection like playing a prank between the painting language and visual sources from everyday trivia. The original visual information from the sources are transformed, omitted, and deformed through being interpreted into paint. They no longer deliver their original meanings, rather they are reframed as something unfamiliar, functioning only within the structure of painting.

Through my practice I have approached not only painting as a visual medium but also painting as a physical medium. I am searching for a way that allows me to be playful with the tension between the material conventions of painting and the abundance of visual imagery I find around me.