In order to interview this creator, we caught her three times

Before I saw her grandson, she first looked at her paintings. The color was gorgeous, her emotions sprayed out, naive, unstoppable, pure, and a little childish and qi.

Group portrait-waiting person

I imagined that this should be a girl with full gas field. On the day of meeting, the rain and sunny switching back and forth, and the grandson sitting in front of the glass window in the cafe said, "I often sit in the cafe to draw passers -by when it rains. I like it. Keep a distance with people, but I also like to observe them. This way makes me feel safe. On rainy days, there is another poetic protection. "

Cafe sketch

The scratching author behind the gorgeous colors turned out to be a girl with a little bit of fear. She had many "scared", afraid of being dark, afraid of "present", a gap between reality and ideals, and afraid that she didn't know what she wanted.

So, she continued to escape and moved with physical space, and lived in Ottawa, Vancouver, New York, Sydney, Barcelona, ​​Chengdu. Escape (she emphasized that the painting was sent, but people were not there).

While "run away", he deeply entered the current life, and Sun Ziyi was a proper experience. After painting, she kept buying books, turning over, throwing it aside, watching the exhibition, watching lively, chatting with friends, listening to singing music ...

This contradictory mood brings her a stable average.

Sun Ziyi went to Canada from Chengdu in high school. Later, he had a magical 6 and a half years of undergraduate experience: first studying the media at Simon Fisha University in Canada, transferred to studying movies in half a year, and transferred to the Department of Philosophy later. Two years later, I transferred to the New York Academy of Visual Arts to study illustrations, then turned into pure art, and finally went to New York Studio School for study. I took a year in the middle and went to Australia for a few months of political science.

In 2018, Sun Tzuyi was studying at NYSS

In the cities she has lived, her favorite is Chengdu, Barcelona, ​​and New York. You can allow different sounds. "

Living in one place, she will also choose to move frequently, not staying in one place for a long time, perhaps to maintain the state of the onlookers, because once "presence" needs to interact and participate, it is difficult to draw.

Use waste on the streets of Spain as a device

But now she has begun to have half of the base, and the stronghold is Chengdu.

In 2019, Sun Ziyi returned to Chengdu after graduation. He did not formally work. He was a full -time creation. He raised a dog with a gentle personality and a dog -like dog called Rothko. He took it everywhere.

The name of the favorite painter is named the dog

There are dogs around, with brushes in hand, and books on hand. It is stability outside the flow and an anchor for her life. "Recently watching" Submarine on the Night "recently, you can imagine the kind of light described in the text. You feel the light of that level, which is amazing."

In order to have a quiet creative environment, grandson Yi lived in the back mountain of Qingcheng for a while, and accidentally went to the book creation to drink coffee. He liked the environment and selection of books there. The work continues there.

Ink painting displayed in the book creation agency

What the subject matter and the mood to paint are related to her environment. At the beginning, what is a kind of expression of expressions is that later, there will be some rational thinking and the schedule of the picture. "The paintings that are directly venting will still be available, but it is too consumed, and more often will be controlled."

Some people say that her paintings are German expressionism. They are good at expressing emotions and feelings with lines, shapes and colors, pursue a strong contrasting effect, and the beauty of distorting and deformation of art.

Group portrait-airport people

Without learning sketching, the grandson who directly entered the oil painting stage felt that she kept her curious in this way, and the technical things slowly learned. As for what faction, it may be accidental. It happened that she used that way to make a unique explanation of her own.

Be with your own work

When she created, she would have a good idea in advance, but she would not draw sketches. She would find a quiet corner and put on headphones. "No one should touch me. Don't quarrel. What is the moment? I may think about it after painting, but there is no way to enjoy it at the moment. "

Creation

After painting, if she is satisfied, she will retain her work. If she feels dissatisfied, she will re -cover a layer and draw again. "If you can't get it off, it will be destroyed.

It is not a long time since I found the expression of painting in college to the present, and there are still many problems she did not solve.

Fortunately, it is in the process of solution.

Sun Tzuyi prefers to paint people more than landscape or static objects. "People feel more familiar and strange to me. As a person, but not knowing people, so it is more interesting to paint. A person, or a certain group observed. "

In rainy days like this, she often sits a passerby in a cafe with a large floor -to -ceiling window in the city. "Sometimes I will shoot it. If I walk so fast, I will draw it in a sketch."

Cafe sketch

In her paintings, strangers often do not have a clear features, but to strengthen the emotions of the painter and the painter through the changes and exaggerations of form or color. Familiar friends

"The familiar talents can paint the facial features, because they understand that their facial features are not just physiological facial features. Each part of the body speaks that feeling."

When I was in school in the United States, my grandfather died, and she painted her grandfather and grandmother

Detail image

From the perspective of Sun Ziyi, people are very interesting. "I may not have a way to look at a person from a psychological perspective. From the picture, you will feel that even if everyone wear the same clothes, leave the same hairstyle, do the same ones, do the same kinds The posture is also a completely different individual. The point of focus or the angle of the shoulders is so different. "

Single portrait and details

Draw others and draw yourself. The center of the picture is herself, there are many eyes around them, these are the "fear" in her heart, and she doesn't dare to put these eyes in the room.

self-portrait

Does drawing self -portrait help understand yourself? "I don't know if it will help, because there are no other ways. But at least they will have a clearer understanding of yourself, but it is another matter if you don't change it."

self-portrait

Sometimes when I posted a work in the circle of friends, I will win a lot of praises. "It is easy to add to this feeling. To draw what everyone likes, I still want to avoid this situation as much as possible, and I want to express it true and freely. Of course, not so many people like my paintings, this is also a good thing. "

Do not deliberately become niche, do not pursue to become the masses, and Sun Ziyi clearly knows whether others really like her work.

She and goose

When staying in one place, living on the ground and approaching people, it is important for her creation. "The observation that is not close and close is actually very different. Because it has not tried to create in a long -term stable environment, it is not sure how it will affect it."

The day before the meeting, the grandson was 30 years old. There was no age anxiety. "Thirty standing, there is no way to stand up, what should I do if it is fifty? Some people stand up in thirty. How can it be stood up? "

Walking forward, drawing every day, this is enough.

There are paintings, dogs, books, enough

"What we should cultivate is the feeling of" pain "instead of letting ourselves really go to a life -threatening life." This sentence comes from the young female director Yang Mingming. The pain is separated from life.

"It is very expressive, but there is a lack of part, but I am not sure what it is, or I am still looking for it." She evaluated her work like this.

Despite being used to "escaping", she never doubted to paint.

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