In 2022, during the period of enforced isolation in Shanghai, I initiated this body of abstract works to translate compressed time into a physical taxonomy of pressure. Operating within a closed, static perimeter, my daily painting practice became an exercise in emotional stratification—layering, folding, and compacting volatile psychological states into a single, non-linear duration.
Central to this tension is a deliberate material conflict: while the works utilize the heavy, aggressive mediums of oil, acrylic, and fluid watercolor, they are executed entirely on ordinary drawing paper. This fragile, humble substrate is forced to bear a weight it was never meant to hold. The paper buckles, absorbs, and strains under the chemical onslaught, mirroring the psychological toll of containment.
As the inaugural work of the series, this canvas—or rather, this paper matrix—registers the most violent chromatic pressure of the entire collection. It documents a harsh trajectory of degradation: originating from a state of naive, illusory pink born of initial fantasy, the surface abruptly ruptures, deteriorating into an explosive collision of calcified brown-red and blinding white. Through austere lines, heavy color fields, and clinical yet reckless splattering, I bound these conflicting frequencies into a singular pictorial grid. The result is not a narrative of isolation, but a dense, solidified block of pure emotional mass.
