Beard and scar 2

About the artwork

My work is focused on healing and repairing grief of the past and memory with drawing, stone lithograph and stitch. Old trauma is the main idea makes me start to explore intimacy between people, which came from my dad%u2019s passing away few years ago. After the experience, I tend to draw and print objects from the missing and worry to lose. While drawing and printing the images to calm myself down from anxiety of losing or remember the intimacy I had experienced. There are two features that I use the most, one is beard and the other is my scar on the hand. The bread is not only for memory of my dad in mind, also if I am close enough to someone, I could feel it just like close physical distance. The scar came from a fainting accident and burn injury that I must be repaired at the moment. I use these two images in the works to go further and deeper for expressing healing and repairing. Through making process, I question power of intimate objects and surfaces.