Emma's art world
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Theme: Safety and Attachment

Inspired by the psychological concept of attachment and personal experience of anxious attachment caused by insufficient early care, this circular painting uses layered soft blue and green mineral pigments. Symbols like puppies, elephants, trees and wooden horses metaphorize the desire for comfort, sense of security and warm family bonds. Through overlapping textures and dreamlike imagery, it visualizes the fragile inner yearning for stable emotional attachment.
Diameter 35 cm
Mineral Pigment, Color Pencil, Pastel
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Identity Series
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The cool, fragmented background symbolizes the isolation and confusion that envelops the self, while the golden butterflies floating around the figures' faces are concrete symbols of thoughts, memories, and emotions, representing the obscuring of self-awareness. The cool and restrained expressions of the figures subtly suggest the predicament of modern people being overwhelmed by emotions and unable to see their true selves. The entire series uses butterflies as a unifying thread to explore the complete process of self-examination, breaking free from mental constraints, and completing an inner transformation.
Self- portrait
50x70 cm
Acrylic paint, soft pastel, color-pencil
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50x50 cm L
50x50 cm R

Mineral Pigment Painting Series
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60X40 cm
Pastel

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The artwork contrasts blooming and withered sunflowers, using mirrored, overlapping twin portraits to reflect the inner conflict and struggle within oneself. The coexistence of passion and decay is a microcosm of the contemporary human condition: chasing the light while embracing emotional desolation, reconciling with one's imperfections through self-reflection.
A moment in life

40x50 cm
Acrylic paint
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Growth
This work centers on a narrative of personal emotions. The reclining figure and the butterfly serve as a dual symbol, visually expressing the artist's emotions, thoughts, and subconscious. The background strives to create a quiet, restrained, yet subtly warm atmosphere. It explores the process of introspection, reconciliation, and self-healing for contemporary individuals. The butterfly is a harbinger of transformation, a process of reflection, self-dialogue, and rebirth.
70x100 cm
Acrylic paint, soft pastel, color-pencil
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Life cycle
The artwork uses a multi-layered folding clay book as its medium, narrating the growth of life through progressively layered visual symbols. From the embracing double pages at the origin, to the waves of confused exploration, to the final texture full of holes and bearing the past, the artwork combines malleable clay, connecting red ropes, and hollowed-out overlapping forms to express that growth is not a one-way forward splitting process, but rather that each experience is stacked layer by layer and embedded in the self. Scars, palpitations, budding and transformation together construct a complete life entity.
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15x20 cm
Acrylic, clay
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Identity
70x100 cm
Acrylic paint, air-brush
The artwork uses a black and white chessboard as a metaphor for the labyrinth of life filled with choices, while the dissolving half-figure at the center symbolizes the fragmented self of contemporary society. The surrounding window panes respectively carry the ties of one's origins, childhood imprints, an unknown exit, and the shackles of time. Through surreal visual metaphors, it depicts the mental exhaustion of modern people, overwhelmed by the past and anxieties, exploring how individuals can find a way out within their fragmented selves.
The chessboard has no boundaries, the doors and windows are a mix of reality and illusion, and the objects are semi-transparent and overlapping, all intended to express that the self is never a single, fixed whole, but a complex pieced together from memories, obsessions, and desires. The imagery also reflects the floating and rootless sense of self-identity in modern people.
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This realistic still life oil painting centers on a table piled high with glasses and wine bottles. I focused my gaze on the ever-changing light and shadow textures of the transparent glass, completing a delicate visual exploration.
In the painting process, I did not deliberately simplify the outlines, but faithfully reproduced the visual phenomena observed by the naked eye. The entire work sheds the deliberately orderly composition of still life paintings, using the casually scattered glasses and bottles to explore the aesthetics of light and shadow, including refraction, reflection, layering of colors, and the interplay of light and shadow.

After the party



50x60 cm
Acrylic paint
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My ideal world is an underwater fairytale: centered around a coral castle, its warm coral textures like a restored home, growing ever more vibrant. Humans frolic in the clear waters, gently undulating with the rising and falling waves, life intertwined. The image doesn't emphasize technology directly "invading" life, but rather transforms electronic elements into a transparent flow of monitoring and purification information: fine points of light and soft circuits surround the ocean currents, like a barrier formed by seaweed and coral, guiding previously blurred wounds towards restoration. The viewer sees reflection in the purity and subtle light: when humanity chooses to record, repair, and act, destruction can be rewritten into a symbiotic future.
My Ideal World
29.7x42 cm
Acrylic paint
