New Year New Heart (2024)

As its title ‘New Year New Heart’ suggests, this piece dreamily expresses the moment of welcoming new hope and emotions at the start of a year. The central figure is reclining in a pool (or tub), surrounded by red, heart-shaped ‘hearts’ floating inside soap bubbles. This symbolizes a surreal act of organizing past emotions (the bubbles) and harvesting or exchanging new ‘hearts’ and ‘love’ for the new year. The bright yellow and blue background suggests an optimistic and hopeful future, through which the artist conveys a message of self-reflection and rebirth using this cheerful yet bizarre image.