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My work looks at school as one of the first places where children learn hierarchy through play. Game boards, rule charts, scorecards, hall passes, and group assignments appear innocent, yet they function as clear instructions for how power works.
Academic success becomes a transparent pathway to small, borrowed authority: permission, visibility, and the right to organize others. This system is both toxic and seductive. It promises fairness, rewards effort, and offers real advantages, yet it is ultimately closed. No matter how well one performs, authority stops at the teacher. Using the language of children’s play, I explore how this early lesson in power feels logical, productive, and quietly pessimistic.
Untitled
Oil on canvas
55 x 70 inches
2025
18 * 24 inch
sand, watercolor, sythetic fur on wood
April, 2024
40 x 32 inch
Color paper, Color marker, Color pencil
Novembr 2024
English Poster Assignment explores how Chinese children approach the creation of English-language posters in school. Treated less as
tools of communication and more as visual decoration, English words become ornamental—sometimes nonsensical but resembling
English in form. Fragments of Western media and cultural references are absorbed through an innocent lens and reassembled playfully,
often out of context. The project mimics this aesthetic: hand-drawn slogans, misused phrases, and mismatched imagery reflect both
compliance and quiet resistance. While the posters are assigned tasks, children find unique ways to engage with or distort the language.
It is an irony of aestheticizing the process of learning while being innocent about the heaviness of cultural reference behind languages.
Medal for speaking in class
45 * 21 inch
found fabrics, block printing on notes, zippers, sythetic fur, wood borad
September, 2024
This piece takes the form of a medal, symbolizing the performance of success in hyper-competitive environments. It reflects the experience
of fighting for that fleeting gasp in class—the rare chance to speak or be heard. In these moments, people become like crocodiles biting each
other’s tails, locked in a silent, thrashing struggle for attention and validation. The medal becomes a bitter reward, honoring not achievement,
but endurance within a system that values aggression over reflection, and dominance over dialogue.
Congratulations
Fabrics, found text, rug February 2025
This work takes the form of a giant rug sewn from children’s fabrics, embroidered with “congratulations” phrases sourced from credit card offers,
contest emails, and brand loyalty programs. By using soft, playful materials to echo the language of corporate validation, the piece critiques
how affirmation is often tied to performance and consumption. Placed on the floor—where praise becomes something to walk over—it quietly
resists the scripted celebrations of institutional success and exposes the hollowness of belonging through purchase.
Knowledge is money, money is mine
size varies
paper mounted on mesonite, lock, wire
may, 2024
Hair, hair
25 * 20 inch
watercolor silksreen on mirror, sythetic fur wood
November, 2023