Youth

作品賞析

For artist Mia Liu, the creative process is more like a game. Through various media, she reflects on the nature of painting and continuously explores unseen possibilities. Over the years, she has developed a series of works that are unconstrained by material and diverse in form, constructing a unique “painting” system. While the English word “drawing” is often translated as “sketch” in Taiwan, she defines it as “painting,” encompassing multiple meanings, including graffiti, writing, and drawing. The work Youth belongs to the artist’s signature “Curly” series. She first draws dots on a flat sheet of paper, then cuts, curls, arranges, and glues the paper together. Mia Liu then painted dots on the pasted surface with acrylic paint, giving the work a more multi-layered visual interest and further demonstrating the dialectical relationship between “drawing” and “painting.”