Hi Louise! Can you sum up your artistic style in three words? Saturated, curious, conflicted.
What were your early experiences with art like? As a kid, I didn’t have much of an opportunity to participate in many extracurricular activities. In a sense, I had to raise myself while my parents worked to keep me in school, so I had the opportunity to spend time with my imagination. One of the things I really enjoyed was turning one of my shelves into a little shop: Louise’s Corner Shop. I would make ‘groceries’ (mostly chicken nuggets) using markers and tissues.
I absolutely loved fantasy, magic and any form of ‘candy land’ aesthetic. I loved , and dubbed in Mandarin. – I was hooked – and that led me to Tim Burton. I became an emo (well, a Christian emo) and found likeminded people online and finally felt like I fitted in. I got into body horror because it felt like such a visceral schism to my upbringing – these subjects were taboo and were derided by my Chinese-Christian community as being sources of anxiety and depression.
