Yanjun Chen freelance illustrator

ABOUT

This work was created to explore my mental problem, the real feeling of sensing two opposite arguments communicating in my mind. The Tai Chi diagram was used as a figurative representation of balance to stabilize the conflict between my superego and ego. This work captures the moment when one is confronted with the same thing that creates total opposition and honestly illustrates this moment, which was drawn in Procreate and colored in Photoshop.

’I hold this circular cabinet of curiosities in my yellow hand, a giant Tai Chi curve dividing the cabinet into two parts, left and right. The omnipresent eyes of my life are hidden behind my broken mask, the face of me holding the round cabinet is reflected in the round mirror in the center, and a blue tree with jewels hangs above my head; the blue-haired, yellow-skinned me on the right and my yellow-haired, blue-skinned alter ego are playing Go, a silent encounter through Go. I, who was painted on a classical Chinese painting, was separated by a taiji curve, which was exquisitely beautiful but could only stay in the painting and could not escape anywhere. I kissed my alter ego, and in a world full of chaos and hatred, I imagined someone who loved me with my whole body and heart, to talk about myself.‘

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