“A longing to relate to something tangible, to reduce and simmer onself until it is nothing but a symbol, to reduce life experience to totems that represent that specific time in my life. I am collector of toys and hoarder of unassuming items with sentimentality. In framing my Asian femme body as a commodifiable object, I critique processes of fetishization, identity and hyper-feminity and girlhood. I yearn to find representation where it lacks,Drawn to using intuition as an approach to my materiality; my use of oil paint, graphite, and spray paint become signifiers of my emotive visual language. I navigate the tension between the fleshing and defacing subject matter as the paintings slowly start to take form and mirror personal narratives.Inspired by the femmages, I weaponize girlishness and kitschiness as a way to subvert capitalist and patriarchal constraints. With an attempt to take up space I force you to confront my identity through your preconceptions. All of my works are a form of self-portraiture reflecting on shame, anger and acceptance of my selfhood.”