Take a Break
by
Tingting xiao
Everything gives me anxiety. For instance, the deaths resulting from Covid-19 become a number, people forgot that is a family behind the number. The conflict between gender is never ending. There is a rise Asian hate crime. I feel as if I am drowning, every bad news becomes like glue that lodges into my throat and thorax. Our world is becoming worse, but I cannot do anything to help. I want to get out of the feeling of powerlessness. My work is a place, where I can take a break and forget these events.
Humans are terribly noisy and disappointing. However, nature cures me, I always find interesting thoughts from nature. How does the moon taste like? How do we domesticate the cloud? Does the pitter-patter of rainfall is a scream when it falls on the ground? It allows me to forget the awful things “The world has kissed my soul with its pain, asking for its return in songs.” Therefore, I want to “show the song” to people and help them forget the cruel things we face, there are still have some things interested in the life. Clam down and be thankful to nature. When I see the moon or feel the rain, I feel loved because the moonlight on my shoulders seems like an elder gently stroke, the rain drops on my face as a kiss. Every natural event tells me that I am loved by it, and I believed it. For this reason, I desire to transfer the love of nature to people. If they know that they are loved, they might care about others. Let’s have an ending of Covid-19. Be respectful to female’s contribution and accept someone’s difference.
Many of my painting focus on the natural landscape such as full moon, clouds, and the Milky Way. I appreciate nature allow me to see its looks, so some of my thought make my life not so hard. For example, when I saw a landscape that the cloud around the mountain, a thought jump out that local people might keep a cloud as a pet in the home. This thought is given by nature, it is the same as an adult coaxed a child to make him/her laugh. I would like to use my works to “coax” people. Consequently, I added other materials in order to catch people’s eyes. I hope them could “come into” my painting to see a kind face of the nature. For selfish reasons, I added Chinese cultural elements in my works because I believed that people’s hate is from their incomprehension. If they understand my culture better, they might not hate my people.