Femininity

I always wondered why I was so attached to drawing female portraits when one day, it came to me. All female characters represent me. They are all very different from each other, and that's how I often feel. I often experience this feeling of an identity crisis and not being able to focus on one thing because many things interest me. Too-many-passions problem, so to speak. I’ve been having this personal physiological conflict since I got out of college, and it only grew bigger with every day. I am still confused about my social role, and I still experience a sense of loss of continuity to my personality, but recently I realized that being an artist is my calling - that’s what I am meant to do. My relationship runs deep to many things, and I want to keep that - keep my identity while not being eaten by the standards of society. When I draw, I don’t usually set goals; I’m guided by the colors and personality of a subject matter. I like to make fashion-inspired portraits and put them in different colored backgrounds and leave the rest to the viewer’s imagination. Strong sense of femininity, sense of daydreams, somewhat minimalist, is how I would describe my work.

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Submitted by Shura Po.