After spending the last month of year 2013 in Korea during winter, I crossed over to 30 °C to Sydney and started new year 2014 with the exhibition ‘Crossing Boundaries‘.

The founding director of Cultural Partnership Australia, Catherine Croll curated this show comprising of diverse art works by Asian artists based in Australia with the interpretation of the theme ‘Horse’ for the year of the horse.

Reflecting the ‘horse’ as the symbolic image of crossing boundaries and journey, I empathise myself to a horse as an expatriate who is crossing cultural boundary and as an artist who goes through a long journey.

Easter Picnic, Hope is the artist’s journey for hope which based on my own experience of an injury. Referencing on Edouard Manet’s painting The luncheon on the grass (Dejeuner sur l’Herbe 1862), I insert myself who was injured into the photography and another of myself who was recovered one year later. These two wrapped faces symbolise the unforseen and unexpected future. The Easter represents the time of hope after overcoming the obstacle and hardship in the artist’s journey.

Dreamfield I  depicts my first encounter with Australia as an expatriate, overlapping my body language and the Australia landscape. The blending and shifted colour with crossing processing technique expresses emotional colour rather than real colour of the landscape.