How We Love and Why?
How We Love and Why?
How We Love and Why?
This mixed-media exhibition explores how childhood loss and personal growth shape our understanding and expression of love.
This mixed-media exhibition explores how childhood loss and personal growth shape our understanding and expression of love.
Role
Role
Artist
Artist
Skills
Skills
Painting, Digital Illustration, Sculpture, Adobe Photoshop
Painting, Digital Illustration, Sculpture, Adobe Photoshop
Timeline
Timeline
2024 (1 Year)
2024 (1 Year)
Skills
Painting, Digital Illustration, Sculpture, Adobe Photoshop
Role
Artist
Timeline
2024 (1 Year)
Project Brief
Project Brief
This exhibition explores the evolving nature of love through a deeply personal lens, tracing how childhood experiences, loss, and personal growth shape the way we understand and express connection. Through a series of mixed-media works arranged chronologically, the exhibition moves from early perceptions of love to moments of grief, reflection, and imagined futures. By combining visual imagery with text, the work bridges personal narrative and universal emotion, inviting viewers to reflect on how their own past experiences inform the way they love and how love can act as a force for transformation and healing.
This exhibition explores the evolving nature of love through a deeply personal lens, tracing how childhood experiences, loss, and personal growth shape the way we understand and express connection. Through a series of mixed-media works arranged chronologically, the exhibition moves from early perceptions of love to moments of grief, reflection, and imagined futures. By combining visual imagery with text, the work bridges personal narrative and universal emotion, inviting viewers to reflect on how their own past experiences inform the way they love and how love can act as a force for transformation and healing.
Title: Ma and Da
Title: Ma and Da
Medium: PhotoShop
Description:
This piece tells the love story of my parents and is the first work in the exhibition, representing my earliest understanding of romantic love. Created as a scrapbook-style digital collage, it brings together archival photos that were scanned, edited, layered, and composited in Photoshop to build a visual timeline of their relationship from childhood to marriage and parenthood. Growing up watching my parents be in love, and hearing their full love story from such a young age, deeply shaped how I understand relationships. Their story became something I romanticized, influencing how I believed love should look and how it should unfold.
Medium: PhotoShop
Description:
This piece tells the love story of my parents and is the first work in the exhibition, representing my earliest understanding of romantic love. Created as a scrapbook-style digital collage, it brings together archival photos that were scanned, edited, layered, and composited in Photoshop to build a visual timeline of their relationship from childhood to marriage and parenthood. Growing up watching my parents be in love, and hearing their full love story from such a young age, deeply shaped how I understand relationships. Their story became something I romanticized, influencing how I believed love should look and how it should unfold.
Title: - Love Ma
Title: - Love Ma
Medium: Acrylic paint
Dimensions: 55cm x 75cm
Description:
This still life is an ode to the enduring love between a mother and her child, captured through the simple ritual of preparing a lunch. The piece is based on a personal memory and is a direct replication of my own lunchbox and the meal my mother used to pack for me, accompanied by a handwritten note she left inside. Being shown love early on through words of affirmation and acts of service shaped how I came to understand and feel love later in life, making these gestures especially meaningful to me. I utilized pointillism to create a soft, dreamlike quality throughout the scene, while keeping the sticky note more realistic and sharply defined. This contrast draws the viewer’s attention to the note itself, highlighting the words of affirmation as the emotional takeaway of the piece.
Medium: Acrylic paint
Dimensions: 55cm x 75cm
Description:
This still life is an ode to the enduring love between a mother and her child, captured through the simple ritual of preparing a lunch. The piece is based on a personal memory and is a direct replication of my own lunchbox and the meal my mother used to pack for me, accompanied by a handwritten note she left inside. Being shown love early on through words of affirmation and acts of service shaped how I came to understand and feel love later in life, making these gestures especially meaningful to me. I utilized pointillism to create a soft, dreamlike quality throughout the scene, while keeping the sticky note more realistic and sharply defined. This contrast draws the viewer’s attention to the note itself, highlighting the words of affirmation as the emotional takeaway of the piece.
Title: Out the Window
Title: Out the Window
Medium: Acrylic paint on layered acrylic sheets
Dimensions: 55cm x 75cm
Description:
This piece is told from the perspective of my younger self, watching my brother trace “I miss you” into the fogged glass as a plane departs outside the window. The image is constructed using layered glass, revealing itself fully only when viewed head-on, a choice that reflects the fragmented nature of memory and longing. The work speaks to our father’s frequent travels and how his absence shaped our understanding of love, highlighting the emotional weight of distance and the lasting importance of presence in relationships.
Medium: Acrylic paint on layered acrylic sheets
Dimensions: 55cm x 75cm
Description:
This piece is told from the perspective of my younger self, watching my brother trace “I miss you” into the fogged glass as a plane departs outside the window. The image is constructed using layered glass, revealing itself fully only when viewed head-on, a choice that reflects the fragmented nature of memory and longing. The work speaks to our father’s frequent travels and how his absence shaped our understanding of love, highlighting the emotional weight of distance and the lasting importance of presence in relationships.
Title: My Love Map
Title: My Love Map
Medium: Digital Illustration
Dimensions: 506 × 1164 pixels
Description:
This piece presents a map of my year through a calendar, with each month illustrating the ways I spend time with others as a way of expressing love. The work reflects how quality time became my primary love language, shaped by its absence at different points in my life. By mapping these moments, the piece explores how a lack of shared time deepened my desire for connection and continues to influence how I seek and value relationships today.
Medium: Digital Illustration
Dimensions: 506 × 1164 pixels
Description:
This piece presents a map of my year through a calendar, with each month illustrating the ways I spend time with others as a way of expressing love. The work reflects how quality time became my primary love language, shaped by its absence at different points in my life. By mapping these moments, the piece explores how a lack of shared time deepened my desire for connection and continues to influence how I seek and value relationships today.
Title: Love Bites
Title: Love Bites
Medium: Clay and Acrylic
Dimensions: 25cm x 30cm
Description:
This piece reflects how gift-giving became one of my love languages, shaped by my relationship with my mother and the feeling of being deeply known. Each element is hand-sculpted and painted to resemble real confections, with details designed to heighten realism. The work emphasizes the idea that to be known is to be loved, and that thoughtful gifts are a way of expressing care, attention, and understanding.
Medium: Clay and Acrylic
Dimensions: 25cm x 30cm
Description:
This piece reflects how gift-giving became one of my love languages, shaped by my relationship with my mother and the feeling of being deeply known. Each element is hand-sculpted and painted to resemble real confections, with details designed to heighten realism. The work emphasizes the idea that to be known is to be loved, and that thoughtful gifts are a way of expressing care, attention, and understanding.
Title: Crying Girl
Title: Crying Girl
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions: 50cm x 70cm
Description:
This artwork explores the deep ache of losing love, drawn from my own grief after losing my father. To convey the isolation that accompanies loss, I drew inspiration from surrealist ideas of fractured time and space, using them to visually express emotional distance and disconnection. The piece also incorporates a pop art sensibility inspired by Drowning Girl, creating a deliberate contrast between heightened emotional intensity and bold, graphic style. This juxtaposition reflects how grief can feel overwhelming and consuming, even when presented through a visually striking, almost detached lens.
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions: 50cm x 70cm
Description:
This artwork explores the deep ache of losing love, drawn from my own grief after losing my father. To convey the isolation that accompanies loss, I drew inspiration from surrealist ideas of fractured time and space, using them to visually express emotional distance and disconnection. The piece also incorporates a pop art sensibility inspired by Drowning Girl, creating a deliberate contrast between heightened emotional intensity and bold, graphic style. This juxtaposition reflects how grief can feel overwhelming and consuming, even when presented through a visually striking, almost detached lens.
Title: Intertwined Love
Title: Intertwined Love
Medium: Plaster and Paper Mache
Dimensions: 80 x 40 x 55 cm
Description:
This sculpture depicts two skeletons embracing and merging into one, intertwined with red wool yarn to represent how physical touch can make love feel bone-deep and deeply connective. The yarn forms the phrase “our touch is timeless,” suggesting how touch can pull you out of reality and into a moment of complete presence. The piece reflects how physical connection shapes the way I experience love and how I seek closeness and intimacy in my relationships today.
Medium: Plaster and Paper Mache
Dimensions: 80 x 40 x 55 cm
Description:
This sculpture depicts two skeletons embracing and merging into one, intertwined with red wool yarn to represent how physical touch can make love feel bone-deep and deeply connective. The yarn forms the phrase “our touch is timeless,” suggesting how touch can pull you out of reality and into a moment of complete presence. The piece reflects how physical connection shapes the way I experience love and how I seek closeness and intimacy in my relationships today.
