Fitting (It) In Painting

The work is an extension of my daily frustration with trying to fit in. It also reflects my occasional but rather frequent vent on both the drama and the comedy many people needed to go through trying to fit in: trying to customize their identity in order to comply certain trends. Bombardment of imagery dictates us with what considered to be better, and how perception and judgments are so short-sighted that substance has been demeaned to merely one-dimensionally measurable properties: from some number on the weight scale justifying beauty, to certain papers justifying intelligence. The painting is an anecdote that borrowed the term “yellow on the outside, white on the inside” and hence the fruit – banana that is familiar, especially within the Asian community who, in many cases live, grow up, and surrounded by western culture, mostly speak English with undetectable “Asian” accent that often sadly perceived to be better than their more “Asian-identifiable” counterparts. The banana is a metaphore suggesting an asian (yellow-skinned person) who acts like a white person. Perhaps it is due to collective inferiority complex rooted back to the colonial time, where the white-skinned colonists were perceived to be superior. This work is a humor, a commentary, of this cultural reality. “Fitting (it) in” is a play of image, of words, around an anecdote that provoke a sense of cultural identity of the artist, some time taken lightly, some time provoke his anxiety.

Painting:Oil on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:35.4 W x 35.4 H x 1.2 D in

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