Girl Untitled is a series of paintings that reinterprets an image of a girl in motion.  I was inspired by a very blurry image of a girl running in a hallway. Something about the motion of the girl being frozen in time intrigued me, perhaps because the figure resides in an interface between stillness and motion.   I reinterpret the figure of the girl in several landscapes inspired by the nature in Taiwan. The immersive scale of the landscape envelopes the figure of the girl, who is often encapsulated in a virtual bubble. 

I use sweeping gestures of fluid paint to let the traces of dripping paint compose the underlying structure of the landscape, which are then selectively covered with more saturated layers of flat surfaces, sometimes leaving fragments of the underlying fluid layer. The disruption of spatial depth from the flat surfaces and the addition of imagined pictorial elements transform the existing landscape, referenced in the Google map link provided in the caption, into an imagined space.  I am interested in the unconscious connections between the landscape and the inner child figure, such as the bridge, the waterfall and the forest, which are all spaces of transition.  The process of covering the underlying fluid paint layer echoes the psychological process of reinterpreting memories from a childhood past into a new narrative that resides in between a reconstructed reality and an imagined space.