I am currently creating work that explores the dynamic struggle between childhood and adulthood through a universal perspective that does not rely on my own memories. My latest project, Like the Lost Boys, utilizes popular toys from my generation’s childhood to evoke a nostalgic sense of inner- happiness, contrasted with the message to “Never fucking grow up. Never fucking give up.” I believe that children have the truest sense of self and purest worldview, and I desperately cling on to the wild and unashamed self-suredness and creativity of childhood. I strive to evoke that sense of unashamed self-suredness and unbridled creativity in my audience by arousing a nostalgic yearning for childhood through our “shared culture” of commercial toys and retro popular culture.

This project was also very much about the process of experimenting with materials and form. I crafted a table from acrylic, and also airbrushed onto paper and acrylic to achieve this final form.