Born Together
This series started as individual assignments, each made in response to a different prompt — a poem, a story, an idiom, or an editorial piece. But as I kept working, I noticed I kept coming back to the same instinct: putting human figures next to animals, plants, or natural textures, as if they belonged together. That instinct was something I later found words for in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass — her writing on reciprocity helped me understand something I already felt, which is that humans and nature are constantly giving and receiving from each other. So these pieces, even though they started separately, began to feel like parts of a larger conversation about that exchange. Visually, I wanted the work to feel warm and immersive — I used high-saturation colors and layered digital brushes to mimic the texture of traditional media. The goal was to leave room for emotion.这个系列最初是一份份独立的作业，各自回应不同的命题——一首诗、一个故事、一个成语，或是一篇社论。但画着画着，我发现自己总会回到同一种直觉：把人物放在动物、植物或自然肌理旁边，仿佛它们本就属于彼此。后来我在 Robin Wall Kimmerer 的《Braiding Sweetgrass》里找到了形容这种直觉的语言——她关于互惠的书写，让我明白了一件我早已感受到的事：人与自然始终在彼此给予、彼此接受。于是这些作品虽然各自起步，却渐渐像是一场关于这种交换的更大对话的一部分。视觉上，我希望作品温暖而有沉浸感——我用高饱和的色彩和层层叠加的数字笔刷来模拟传统媒介的质感，目的是为情感留出空间。
