Gem in Their Eyes No.5 “Pink Zoisite”

My art practice is derived from doll photography, which I started practicing when I was a kid. Inspired by the visual beauty of these mass-produced toy dolls, my paintings discuss the cultural context about the meanings behind objects that are human beings’ artificial imitations. I turn these externally lifeless models into internally living objects by capturing their subtle expressions as if they could talk with their gem-like eyes. While I proceed to explore the borderline between life and lifelessness in my work, I capture the sublime aesthetics of ideal humanoid form worshipping in doll images I create.
No matter it’s the antique bisque doll or the modern mass-produced resin doll, people living in different eras used sculpture arts to freeze their inspirations and aesthetics about the ideal form of beautiful human beings. Like how living creatures are preserved in ambers, these old or new dolls preserve people’s ideal images of themselves. Time would move forward and no one’s appearance stays the same, but these dolls people create get to exist as an immortal portray of people’s inner world.