This project is based on my personal experience, emotion, inspired by Ariana and the Rose releases her debut album ‘Lonely Hearts Club’. It’s about the process of being lonely and finding joy at last. I am a quite girl who is peaceful and enjoys being alone, playing with myself. Before I went abroad, I would not feel lonely or depressed in my daily life, however, things changed when I went to another country to study. No close friends, family, everything is unacquainted to me. At first, the new things may arouse my curiosity to explore, but day by day, the novelty would wear off, then loneliness would appear.

Loneliness doesn’t happen all at once, it is a steady process of erosion, which slowly drains the joy of living from a person. In this series of works, I represent the erosion process of loneliness through burning plastic that reflects my emotion’s change. While when I listen to Ariana and the Rose’s album, which is an expertly crafted collection that bridges together celebratory joy, heartfelt empowerment, and irresistible playfulness in her music that made me feel electrically alive. Her songs made me begin to entertain myself in my room, I chose two roses, with burning plastic, and put them into washbasin to let them play with each other. The two roses can be reflected me play with my shadow, drifts between unbridled escapism and catharsis, and finally I can say like the song ‘Setting Me Free’, and I used roses, waste plastic, leftover wax to create the final painting represent letting go of all that holds me back. The viewpoint in this work consider the issue of communal transcendence of loneliness, enjoyment, hedonism after the remission of pandemic that’s hugely essential after being in a time of so much isolation and uncertainty.