I'm Yixuan Li. I have a hard time just remembering. If you tell me something, there’s an 89% chance that I will forget most of it by the end of the day. I’m sorry.

An old Feng Shui master gave me my name, 易轩 (Yixuan), under my mom’s request after he/she read my eight characters (八字). I'm guessing my mom must have spent a lot of money in order to get help from this person. I like my name a lot. If you are interested, here’s a full analysis of my name from a Chinese name rating website that I spent $1.15 to get the result.
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Painting is conversation, calculation, and fiction. When I paint, I paint through the memories and through the fiction that I create to be "real." To paint is to reveal; to paint is to peel. To paint is to reflect, and to paint is to confess. Painting for me is more likely to be a personal reconciliation for the empty spaces in my memory.


My paintings are my thinking process of how fiction can be seen as real, and how we manipulate ourselves to believe certain things. The essence of space, time, and memory can be defined as a solid concept, something unchangeable, something that about "real" on one side experience. The past tense of these three ideas will not disappear, but rather become history. However, it seems that we, as humans, tend to believe the truth of our own, and in this way, we convince ourselves to immerse ourselves in this fictional belief that we have created, almost like a process of us creating our own religion.

I do acrylics more. I incorporate thin layers of paint in my paintings, which allows me to build up the composition. I aim to reveal the underlying colors and textures of the surface below, creating a sense of depth and complexity that draws the viewer in. I believe that transparency can serve as a metaphor for the way we interact with the world around us. Often, we perceive the surface of things without comprehending what lies beneath. I use multiple layers to create uncertainty, reflecting the complexity of the subject. By layering different materials, textures, and colors, I strive to evoke a sense of the diverse possibilities within a space and how past phenomena can influence our perception of the present moment.

Twins but was only close before they turn 20 years old.

When you’re including figures into your work, what are you thinking?
 

I did this collage when I was around 15/16 and yesterday I had a dream of it. One day my mom threw this poster away from the outside surface of my closet for some reason I still haven’t figure out. We had a huge fight because of this. I cried in front of 5 friends of my parent. 

Also how platypus can survive even if they are so different and vulnerable.   

For the most part, life is very quiet. I don’t do much recently, I just flow when I don’t need to push myself. Here’s the booklist that I’ve been reading currently.

Crystal Boys (孽子) - Pai Hsien-yung
丑陋的中国人 - Bo Yang
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
树犹如此 - Pai Hsien-yung

I have so many things that I want to share. But this one can snow on its own. You know, it snows every time when I think about you..

Go travel. Go climb trees.

The ability to remember, to forget, to reconcile, to be forgiven, to be loved, and to build my house. 

Oeuf mollet/soft-boiled.