Inside King's-Edgehill School
I hope you enjoy our virtual exhibitions. We admire not only our students' skills and creativity but also their courage in sharing their work with us. Please join me in congratulating our 2020 IB Visual Arts students on their hard work and achievements.We would like to introduce IB Artist: Lingxi (Nydia) Liu
The theme of my exhibition is Dreams.
Nine of the eleven pieces were all created in the summer of 2019. I made a promise to myself that I shall release all my thoughts that confused me, inspired me, and interested me into my art works and writings. I am a dreamer, what that means is that I dream a lot. Many of my ideas come from my dreams. Every night, new stuff, almost never repeated. I desired to share those interesting dreams to everybody else. Sometimes, I wrote them down. Like I said, I like writing stuff. I wrote novels and short stories based on my dreams. When I shared them with my family and my friends, they would tell me that those were amazing things that I should often share. And I listened.
During the summer break in 2019, I started thinking about the best way to share my dreams and ideas with people. And then I found it. To draw them. I bought many different types of paints and brushes and started my work. I kept drawing and painting for two months, and I created 22 pieces of work. All from different dreams. I really liked those dreams, so I am now here to share them with you.
There is one piece that I did different from the others, and that is my self-portrait. I figured that it
would give the exhibition a little bit more essence if the viewers can see my face while checking out my dreams. Maybe my pieces will remind the viewers of their own dreams. You never know.
If I have to pick, then my favourite work has to be the oil abstract painting, the “AIR”. I know
my painting skills need to improve, but I really love this painting. To be honest, I painted this right after one of my relatives died. That day I went to the crematory with my family. I actually had not seen my relative for quite a long time, ever since I went to Canada for schooling; it has been almost three years. I did not know that she was so sick. My parents never told me. But that day, my mom was crying so hard and it made my heart hurt even harder. I looked numb and careless to the others who were there crying. But in my heart was crying as well. Even now, I do not understand why I wanted to cry so much but could not even make a noise. I did not even drop tears. I painted her. That day, around 5 pm, we were home.
My mom went straight to her bed and closed the door, I did not know if she still wanted to cry. My dad went to his office to deal with work stuff. And there I was, standing in the middle of the living room. Having no thoughts but only the shouting in my head and heart. So, I needed to breathe it out. I used brushes first, then I started to use my fingers to draw. A lot of my artwork is very personal.
I had selected a range of work to put in the IB Exhibition, I had planned to arrange my work in the order that it was completed. Our school was closed because of the pandemic and we were not able to have our exhibition.
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