https://www.yfjiang.com/painting-1 daily 0.75 2026-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1780941923463-XXJEUUCOYNZ7QOR95EL2/4_Jiang_Slip+through.jpg PAINTING - Slip through, 2025, 96x60in. When I am very sick, I feel as if I could sink into my bed. I wish crossing over to death were that easy — just slipping through a sack or a membrane, the way Tolstoy describes in The Death of Ivan Ilyich. My consciousness feels like a stone, or an egg: dense. Something like that could slip through and drop cleanly out of this world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1780941923463-XXJEUUCOYNZ7QOR95EL2/4_Jiang_Slip+through.jpg PAINTING - Slip through, 2025, 96x60in. When I am very sick, I feel as if I could sink into my bed. I wish crossing over to death were that easy — just slipping through a sack or a membrane, the way Tolstoy describes in The Death of Ivan Ilyich. My consciousness feels like a stone, or an egg: dense. Something like that could slip through and drop cleanly out of this world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1727375698243-UYZD496LZ8G48STO9SDD/Everything.jpg PAINTING - Everything, 2024, Oil on canvas, 96x96in. The origin of the universe, predating time itself, remains a profound mystery. The Big Bang explains the universe's expansion but not its cause. The Dao De Jing calls the coexistence of being and non-being the "abyss of abysses — the gateway to all mystery." The universe can be imagined shifting between black and white, a circular world generated by the boundary between opposites. Ancient Hebrew texts liken stars to traveling angels. As stars move beyond the circles that contain them, the circle expands. Yet on a sphere, circles can shrink even as the angles escape — the way the universe may one day fold in on itself, continuing the eternal cycle of being and non-being. These are the branches of knowledge I hang from to imagine the beginning of everything. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1780610321925-I9K1OYWZDFDELJI0BBQJ/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Slip through, oil on canvas, 96x60in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1768254989830-BGLX4R92K2UB2EVFOLMW/a+day+on+earth.jpg PAINTING - A day on earth, 2025, oil on canvas, 60x72in. Walking home from studio one day, I felt particularly happy to be alive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1780610200637-DFQYAGDH6XYW31H2EX0G/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - It's Mommy and I walking, 2025, oil on canvas, 16x16in. People say your entire life flashes before your eyes before death. This is one of the moments I would want to revisit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1739159601464-2RT8TNUG8HCA95NPLUBH/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Harvest, 2024, Oil on Canvas, 96x72in. I was chatting with the Chinese artist and critic Chen Danqing over lunch. While slurping noodles, he told me that Chinese civilisation is the one that has always responded to catastrophe and grief by returning to daily necessities. Farming, he said. That is what we will do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1711658107542-YF2XPF7KWOCCIO4MA7WE/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Trajectory, 2024, oil on canvas, 60x60in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1711658055265-ZFFK3XJSAW00XQKZMQPT/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Spring lady, 2024, oil on canvas, 60x60in. I was in Kyoto when the first breath of spring — blooming flowers and warm evening air — was carried to me by the motion of an elegant passerby in a silk kimono. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1780610573934-5MQCWE6N7PC8A2VH179O/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Stingray, 2026, Oil on canvas, 16x16in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1780610130650-9MOD8CKR4KJW6CO4J9FZ/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Return, 2025, Oil on canvas, 40x40in. My first memory is my mother reading Li Bai's "Bring in the Wine" — Do you not see the Yellow River's waters pouring down from the heavens, rushing toward the sea, never to return; do you not see, before the bright mirror in the high hall, one grieving over white hair — at dawn like black silk, by dusk turned to snow? I asked her what the poem meant. She said: we will all die one day. 将进酒 —— 君不见黄河之水天上来,奔流到海不复回;君不见高堂明镜悲白发,朝如青丝暮成雪。 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1768254960712-LZQ8GJSDDMECFMR5SFTZ/back+sea.jpg PAINTING - Back sea, 2025, oil on canvas, 16x16in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1780896165948-DV9LJ6G8LOV5Q352DNQM/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Exit, 2025, Oil on canvas, 36x86in. In the Tractatus, Ludwig Wittgenstein draws a diagram much like this one to show that we can never see what we see with — the eye itself never appears in the field of vision. I feel the same way about life, so I painted my childhood photos into a 3D prism. Death, I wish, would let me see my own eye — to at last exit that form, to step beyond the limits of my own life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1768255022499-6P8B6KE30XUUS6LOAOU4/%E5%9C%B0%E9%93%81%E7%AB%99+subway+station+2025+copy.jpg PAINTING - Subway station, 2025, oil on canvas, 44x44in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1632447105564-6UU2OVHLV5D3UO35HXMU/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Nap, 2021, oil on canvas, 60x72in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1647555699621-GO5VQ7UF6UFUMG314WUX/wall1.jpg PAINTING - Garden wall, 2021, oil on canvas, 38x38in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1780895885178-R1LSZC4N6CKHS5ENODBA/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - After school, 2025, Oil on canvas, 30x30in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1780610455023-BH1VUV7XNJQOEAG67TR4/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Storm, 2025, Oil on canvas, 40x40in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1780610406153-1PE29DLO9AFVU8TUAPHP/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Thoughts, 2026, oil on canvas, 38x38in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1647555735816-LVAQK43XG92V0B7L4POK/wintersun.jpg PAINTING - Winter sun, 2021, oil on canvas, 38x38in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1768254955103-3R2LGTHQAO6QF9LXGYNO/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Spoons, 2025, oil on canvas, 16x16in. The smoothness and texture of Beijing subway stations reminded me of spoons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1780937647642-1H25K2UQTUL45FK79F9H/finale.jpg PAINTING - Finale, 2025, Oil on canvas, 30x30in. I tried to imagine death as a personal finale, Lying there, comfortably, to watch the end of one’s world. And it would be quite pretty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1768254994660-OVZVI0Y8IBFY0922F0CG/IMG_1610+copy.jpg PAINTING - Asteroid, 2025, oil on canvas, 50x72in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1768255026780-5Z2T4DRWJPJ05CU0ZFJQ/%E6%97%B6%E9%97%B4%E7%9A%84%E5%A4%9C+the+night+of+time+2025+copy.jpg PAINTING - Night of time, 2025, oil on canvas, 60x72in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1727376806792-QS5EI3SE7KRWCQYNSQNO/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Bottomless, 2022, oil on canvas, 42x42in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1657676871175-ZKD36GPJL4ZX02HAHXZZ/22+copy.jpg PAINTING - Ceiling fan, 2022, oil on canvas, 80x40in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1727395244225-6FVENO7GZC99JVPQLP7A/gravity+moon+no+edge.jpg PAINTING - Gravity Moon, 2024, oil on canvas, 60 x 46 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1684090263136-FD5NSEQXBL1QZ2DHMDQZ/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Haircut, 2023, oil on canvas, 60 x 86 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1665283066517-6UN2TEAPCHSF3B0A936A/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Garden wall, 2021, oil on canvas, 38x38in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1768255030648-9VMY826QPWL4Q3F41JZJ/%E7%BA%B8%E9%A3%9E%E6%9C%BA+paper+plane+2025+copy.jpg PAINTING - Paper plane, 2025, oil on canvas, 42x42in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1711657918388-QFPYBAE24WZ5GI252U8C/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Pacific lily, 2024, oil on canvas, 72x86in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1702371522894-FKLN9G5P9E2C059FF5SB/airplane+pillow.jpg PAINTING - Travel Pillow, 2023, oil on canvas, 38x38in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1657677381479-ZDML2HE4YF1G8127PURN/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Backyard, 2022, oil on canvas, 118x40in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1642052883774-2WFLHGRQJ7PDU6076UU8/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Subway horses, 2021, oil on canvas, 60x60in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1768254988887-B0Y5ZLC8QQ6QBRNRSV76/_53A7594+copy.jpg PAINTING - Namcha Barwa Peak, 2025, oil on canvas, 16x16in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1702370990174-S0W1FAVYSY48RH47FP7C/lambo.jpg PAINTING - Drive, 2023, oil on canvas, 60x86in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1768255032225-DA6BKMJVAXTSL1EJ8I2K/train+station.jpg PAINTING - Train station, 2025, oil on canvas, 16x16in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1684090331144-6X24G6GBTDNXQA6V2PSP/16.jpg PAINTING - Late Afternoon, 2023, oil on canvas, 60 x 42 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1684090152599-2SDDT8DQHHDRJDZHAMQI/image.jpg PAINTING - Edinburgh, 2023, oil on canvas, 60 x 72 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1632442991019-OZOQRV99QZZ4S5R5UV5R/03.jpg PAINTING - Unit 1, 2021, oil on canvas, 44x44in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1684090320106-DWE5J511SEMP1FOZESIX/15.jpg PAINTING - Midsummer, 2023, oil on canvas, 38 x 38 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1632447228737-XKFYZBKE9HQEGCHY8TWY/14.jpg PAINTING - Butterfly, 2021, oil on canvas, 10x10in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1632443059961-EN4M71OD9ZK4B3VS6E0Q/09.jpg PAINTING Two tailed cat 2021 Oil on canvas 30 x 30 in / 76.2 x 76.2 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1768256707358-QN5BG7YIE9PZK6NEXBAE/Screenshot+2026-01-12+at+5.24.29%E2%80%AFpm.png PAINTING - Fountain, 2025, oil on canvas, 96x60in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1684090208554-BZO4FBM6BQDVP6X7GHHI/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Sleep, 2023, oil on canvas, 60 x 86 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1684090103441-FOWZBGYVQ1I8WA8OUF73/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Pool, 2022, oil on canvas, 72 x 60 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1684090336979-DIC830V0HIRYR6OOKSFL/17.jpg PAINTING - Throw, 2023, oil on canvas, 72 x 60 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1647555615065-6J8LOS9JBL5FZQKI4BJZ/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Exit, 2021, oil on canvas, 34x34in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1702371261052-AOQSC3UQAGAZ7QQF1C3C/pebble+hunter.jpg PAINTING - Pebble Hunter, 2023, oil on canvas, 42x42in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1657677104518-VNTC9B7UTFYLQJ2JUEHO/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Fall, 2022, oil on canvas, 54x54in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1657677615544-TL195KMKWJYKT75I4PWS/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Berrendo, 2022, oil on canvas, 24x40in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1684090236228-P5SCRF8ETWR8CXQ1WVBV/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Fall, 2023, oil on canvas, 38 x 38 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1632443177047-2V1ARHFRIJ0NDCXBMBY1/15.jpg PAINTING - Cosmic address, 2021, oil on canvas, 60x72in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1702371105855-N57J9WXQ06PWGKSRKLKQ/Flock.jpg PAINTING - Flock, 2023, oil on canvas, 50x72in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1684090284937-WW71ED8IAQ7OC3YJ76Y0/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Mercury, 2023, oil on canvas, 60 x 72 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1632442257050-C6G3ILLYPQZDB1BXX5U6/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Subway horses 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 60 in / 152.4 x 152.4 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1650603485797-KJF8JVTZ1EDF8MM0JTPJ/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Above Dallas, 2022, oil on canvas, 30x40in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1647555580924-D0DFH5ENYIXQL6BE2IBJ/fense1.jpg PAINTING - Fence, 2021, oil on canvas, 34x34in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1606719261422-QV8I68DDH4DBBJZALAGZ/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Trampoline, 2020, oil on canvas, 28 x 28in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1632443049211-H71F5WCPZX7IDS1U39Y2/06.jpg PAINTING - Old tree, 2021, oil on canvas, 60x60in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1632442996672-ZAE6U0FEYC1ZAPW15UPX/04.jpg PAINTING - 2 kids, 2021, oil on canvas, 20x20in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1592414288610-2ZVEG21NNHTNBL6WCBRO/7d.jpg PAINTING - Parking lot, 2016, oil on canvas, 24x24in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1647555317748-3KW8N29M60SLFKT1LJXS/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - College Drive, 2021, oil on canvas, 34x34in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1598742994622-W8CZCH534IYIYNOOATLQ/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Bus stop, 2016, oil on canvas, 28x75in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1606719410770-G2SBAZV510XB9MFZAZQJ/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Window, 2020, oil on canvas, 28x28in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1592387725790-8QS9B5OX9HV9QXQ473RD/Jiang%2C+Yifan_1.jpg PAINTING - Beach, 2018, oil on canvas, 48x48in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1592387758094-1E7MUZUOQGAAWVL9V6RB/Jiang%2C+Yifan_8.jpg PAINTING - Plaza Monkeys, 2020, oil on canvas, 60x72in. Based on a Chinese fable. The story is about a group of monkeys trying to fish for the moon's reflection in the pound and never succeeding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1657676997995-5CUEMXVH1DQZG7SG7VGH/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Fall(2), 2022, oil on canvas, 48x48in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1632442293976-CDAN39XUHFWVG114PSKC/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Drone, 2021, oil on canvas, 40x40in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1592414436822-CNCMJCJ3GFVO92XLMDOX/garden.jpg PAINTING - Noon, 2016, oil on canvas, 30x30in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1768255018379-Y3KHQMEJ9B3BQLXRWTOD/lincon+center.jpg PAINTING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1657677645909-DGDJFCU23HZGQACVVIYM/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Yucca elata, 2022, oil on canvas, 24x24in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1592387541828-MA5YTBSAUJ4UHHJQ58MI/dog+park.jpg PAINTING - Dog park, 2020, oil on paper, 10x10in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1632443044354-B4T219CNJUN5RDY5HLYE/05.jpg PAINTING - Picnic, 2021, oil on canvas, 20x20in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1598744235328-B4S98151U7ZB9S8SHKBW/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - House, 2020, oil on canvas, 10x10in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1592414497309-6DGS0DCJQHU6QDKZDIXF/treee.jpg PAINTING - Tree, 2017, oil on canvas, 45x60in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1592414300870-TJZT3FPTBUX6VPXQLWBA/8d.jpg PAINTING - Duck, 2016, oil on canvas, 12x12in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1592414293552-HCH2Z3IZNMLZ9WMOUYX2/5d.jpg PAINTING - Bus stop, 2016, oil on canvas, 40x40in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1632443064667-XQU4PN1DIIUA3WK51LBO/10.jpg PAINTING - Window, 2021, oil on canvas, 30x30in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1592414339606-YE2L344S1T8IO831L62W/bedroom.jpg PAINTING - Motel, 2016, oil on canvas, 12x12in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1592414421225-IPKVATHA4T1OM8P3JKW8/ducks1.jpg PAINTING - Ducks, 2017, oil on canvas, 60x60in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1592387555545-KGJF95Q0QWGMPYUCN67J/DSCF1652+copy.jpg PAINTING Beach, oil on paper, 10x10in, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1606719465491-F397AABCRO4MSUBRNSVT/image-asset.jpeg PAINTING - Highway, 2020, oil on canvas, 28x28in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1598741432482-S02WEWIGIREEATVXVVVT/Jiang%252C%2BYifan_6.jpg PAINTING https://www.yfjiang.com/projects-forte daily 1.0 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1702364982615-J1P0GTXZXZEEGFJMMXWH/2.png ANIMATION - One Sunday Morning (2021) 13:12 minute animated video written and produced by Yifan Jiang. One Sunday morning is a fable-esque thought experiment exploring the limits of language and human empathy. The story begins with humanity’s sudden loss of language on one unsuspecting Sunday morning. Set in a parallel universe that is a magical realist rerendering of our contemporary reality, the lives of the two protagonists push these questions to the breaking point. What did we humans gain from language, and at what cost? Don’t look down. We are beings that live on top of dizzying towers of abstraction on top of abstraction on top of abstraction… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1702366249471-BDORKLMNKGLWCROMS1CG/still2.jpeg ANIMATION - Two Truths and a Lie (2020) 20:30 minute animated video vwritten and produced by Yifan Jiang and James J.A. Mercer. After receiving a name from its grandmother, a baby is faced with the prospects of knowledge, love, and death in a game of two truths and a lie. Over a 20-year timeline, the baby journeys across the globe, giving away three aspects of itself to three others. Two Truths and a Lie is created as a mix of hand-drawn elements and digital animation, most of which is generated in Photoshop in the mode of an animated GIF and supplemented with processing programming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1702363085287-24T3M8CGGGHCJ4L4H7SD/SS2.jpg ANIMATION - Neighbors (2023) 13:16 minute Two-channel video installation written and produced by Yifan Jiang. During my past year of living in the desert, prolonged isolation got me to ask one question: “Who is the one listening when I am speaking to myself?” Who is the “I” that listens to the words spoken by the inner voice? Who owns the inner eye that delights in the pink elephants of daydreams? Do they share a name with the dreamer, or are they just strangers living in the same skull? Neighbors is a two-channel video installation that grapples with one’s relationship with oneself. Played simultaneously, the animated videos show two characters living in apartments across each other. Crouching in the darkness, they watch and judge each other’s every move. Using the installation as a metaphor, Neighbors delve into the paradoxical structure of one’s inner world. Of course, answering big metaphysical questions is beyond me, but my best effort is an honest report. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1702364701273-ABHVLZTYSMCLQLVIMYKX/image_processing20220504-4-rfxxyc.jpeg ANIMATION - Zero-sum game (2022) 5:59 minute Two-channel installation written and produced by Yifan Jiang. The two-channel installation comprises one screen playing the video normally while the other plays the same clip but in reverse. A zero-sum game describes a situation involving two sides, where one side’s advantage always equates to the other’s loss. In my backyard, I saw an insect curled up to drink a liquid coming from its own wound. Mesmerised, I tried to picture the incident in reverse. In that image, the animal was expelling parts of itself to patch up its wound. Thinking about the city that sat far away on the horizon, I imagined the same thing happening to an organism that we call our civilisation. In virtual spaces, we can move freely on the axis of time, events can be sliced up and reorganised, and actions can be undone and redone. Perhaps these old dichotomies aren’t as finite as they used to be, and instead, we need to take seriously futures that are fundamentally divorced from our present epistemological reality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1768252595877-HXJ4CKD4C9TFAMFQ8UDF/Screenshot+2026-01-12+at+4.16.19%E2%80%AFpm.png ANIMATION - Vacation (2022) 25:10 minute animated video written and produced by James J.A. Mercer and Yifan Jiang. Vacation follows a protagonist road-tripping home from college. A sudden volcanic eruption totals his car and destroys all his possessions. Barely surviving, our destitute star builds a life for himself out of furniture that has washed up on the shore, making an unremarkable patch of beach his home. An absurd fable on the nature of nature unfolds as he meets three animal companions: an intransigent seagull, a brilliant spider hidden in a broken laptop, and a divorced fish battling for custody over her 50,000 children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5908e3badb29d6a01531fd6a/1768251447685-L685YFNAE8B9QCDWXLIN/Screenshot+2026-01-12+at+3.28.18%E2%80%AFpm.png ANIMATION - Jason's story 29:38 minute animated video written and produced by James J.A. Mercer and Yifan Jiang. A FedX driver, a new mother, a manipulator, a cheater, an immigrant, and a fast-food employee drift past one another in a small town. The town is revealed piece by piece through this ensemble cast. 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