My work explores the poetics of distance and unattainability through the recurring motif of the crescent moon. Using layered landscapes, glowing text, and a restrained colour palette, I construct emotional environments where desire and absence coexist. Influenced by BE (bad ending) aesthetics in contemporary Chinese culture, as well as literary and sensory ekphrasis, I see the moon as a symbolic entity that invites longing rather than offering resolution.

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Through the interplay of text and image—borrowing from Roland Barthes’ notions of anchorage and relay—I seek to create visual contradictions that amplify emotional tension. The phrases “so close” and “you owned me” are not explanations, but emotional anchors that engage viewers in their own experiences of closeness, loss, and projection.

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Ultimately, my practice is not about representing the moon itself, but about using it as a space to think through emotional and existential conditions of desire, memory, and incompletion. It is an invitation to inhabit the poetic distance between seeing and feeling.