Gemstone Forest
In my painting practice, the forest has gradually ceased to be a mere landscape motif and has instead become a generative, ever-shifting field of thought. It functions simultaneously as a reservoir of inspiration and a metaphorical vessel for emotional experience. My canvases do not aim to reproduce nature; rather, they pursue the question of how perception takes form—each brushstroke tracing the fluid movement of feeling. As an artist who has lived between Taiwan, France, and Switzerland, my inner landscape has been shaped by the layering of multiple cultures and lived contexts, forming a mosaic that is constantly in motion. Through these crossings and returns, the forest in my work becomes a kind of cross-cultural bodily memory.
In 2022, I became a mother. This turning point opened a deeper mode of looking within my artistic journey. The repetitive rhythm of early motherhood introduced a nearly ritualistic sense of time: I often felt as if I were walking through an endless expanse of trees, their silhouettes vanishing quietly into a grey half-light. This sensation of "wandering within the forest" reshaped my understanding of the stratified nature of emotion and existence.
Over time, the smallest and most easily overlooked fragments of daily life began to shift in quality—ordinary pebbles suddenly refracted the luminosity of gemstones. This awakening, this passage from the mundane to the extraordinary, allowed me to capture on canvas the subtle vibrations that continuously unfold within life. My forest is thus no longer a geographical space, but a structure where motherhood, cultural migration, and personal emotion intersect visually.
These works are therefore not depictions of landscape, but acts of writing through perception. Light and shadow, density and emptiness, velocity and stillness of gesture—together they construct a visual inquiry into the complexities of being. They ask: within the repetition of daily life, can we still recognize those fleeting glimmers of radiance? Here, art becomes both a resistance to forgetting and a gentle response to living.
Ultimately, art and life permeate one another through the metaphor of the forest. The trajectories of motherhood, migration, and self-perception transform upon the canvas into a visible contemporary narrative.
