My BigBear (2025)

As the title ‘My BigBear’ suggests, this artwork can be interpreted as a personal narrative simultaneously encompassing childhood nostalgia and anxiety. While a teddy bear typically symbolizes safety, comfort, and innocence, the bear in this piece carries asymmetrical or bizarre elements (e.g., skull patterns, a broken face) that seem to project the artist’s unique personality and emotions. The rough yet warm expressive style, where brushstrokes are vibrantly visible on the canvas, evokes the fundamental human desire to rely on a cherished inner sanctuary—’my own big bear’—even amidst an unstable reality. Through this teddy bear, the artist merges lost childlike wonder with the complex emotions faced in adulthood, bestowing upon the object the meaning of a spiritual companion rather than a mere object.