Romance, relationships, platonic love, familial love, adolescent love, and especially romantic love are the central concepts in my work. The imagery is generated from multiple sources, from popular culture to personal associations. Chosen objects are composed to recreate an idealized memory. Within each piece, the work finds balance or rather flickers between two independent ideas. The images have both masculine and feminine connotations. Opposing ideas are dealt with aesthetically, in the handling of medium as well as setting hard-edged objects upon soft atmospheric grounds, or representing objects with a feathery touch. Both imagery and content are light hearted and sugary sweet but are executed in a slow, painstakingly serious manner. An attempt at subverting the harsh realities of adult love, the works speak of innocence and fantasy. Each piece is a romantic love story. It’s the kind of love that sweeps you off your feet. It’s the one where lovers float on dreamlike seas of beautiful colours with stars in their eyes while blowing heart shaped kisses.
Alison Wong
