




Shimmering firelight and fading watermark, 孙杰卿

Shimmering firelight and fading watermark, 孙杰卿 2022 44 x 56 in mixed media on silk polyester
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Shimmering firelight and fading watermark, 孙杰卿 [detail]
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Shimmering firelight and fading watermark, 孙杰卿 [detail]
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Shimmering firelight and fading watermark, 孙杰卿 [detail]





Dreamscape, bug in the ceiling lamp
Dreamscape, bug in the ceiling lamp 2022 44 x 52 in mixed media on silk polyester
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Dreamscape, bug in the ceiling lamp [detail]
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Dreamscape, bug in the ceiling lamp [detail]





Circling staircases, ruins, playgrounds before dinner
![Circling staircases, ruins, playgrounds before dinner [mountain up]
2022
36 x 52 in
mixed media on silk polyester](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eefd8477ad3906c35f52c98/1651425390092-7H5IN4OHLUAR1J6P9LYG/Circling%2Bstaircases%252C%2BRuins%252C%2BPlaygrounds%2Bbefore%2Bdinner.jpg)
Circling staircases, ruins, playgrounds before dinner [mountain up] 2022 36 x 52 in mixed media on silk polyester
![Circling staircases, ruins, playgrounds before dinner [room up]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eefd8477ad3906c35f52c98/aade1e27-f3ec-4d17-a04f-7c200453c0b7/Circling+staircases%2C+Ruins%2C+Playgrounds+before+dinner+c+.jpg)
Circling staircases, ruins, playgrounds before dinner [room up]

Circling staircases, ruins, playgrounds before dinner
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Circling staircases, ruins, playgrounds before dinner [detail]
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Circling staircases, ruins, playgrounds before dinner [detail]
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Circling staircases, ruins, playgrounds before dinner [detail]





Bedroom window, roaring train, footsteps

Bedroom window, roaring train, footsteps (display) 2022 36 x 48 in mixed media on silk polyester
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Bedroom window, roaring train, footsteps [detail]









Secret garden
![Secret garden [display]
2022
36 x 50 in
mixed media on silk polyester](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eefd8477ad3906c35f52c98/a8bd6f12-082d-4eef-baec-ac6a01163738/untitled3.jpg)
Secret garden [display] 2022 36 x 50 in mixed media on silk polyester
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Secret garden [details]
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Secret garden [details]
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Secret garden [details]
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Secret garden [details]
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Secret garden [details]
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Secret garden [details]




![Pelicans and waves awake me at 6am from a happy excursion [part1]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eefd8477ad3906c35f52c98/ee5f4ba7-4829-4e28-8741-93d019efad75/untitled+copy.jpg)
Pelicans and waves awake me at 6am from a happy excursion [part1]
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Pelicans and waves awake me at 6am from a happy excursion [part2]
![Pelicans and waves awake me at 6am from a happy excursion [display]
2022
28 x 48 in
mixed media on silk polyester](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eefd8477ad3906c35f52c98/04c8d5e0-c339-476c-be36-8eb5e3ea7227/untitled+group.jpg)
Pelicans and waves awake me at 6am from a happy excursion [display] 2022 28 x 48 in mixed media on silk polyester
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Pelicans and waves awake me at 6am from a happy excursion [details]



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Pelicans and waves awake me at 6am from a happy excursion [details]
![Pelicans and waves awake me at 6am from a happy excursion [details]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eefd8477ad3906c35f52c98/5011800e-63f1-4121-8505-8f9cb4cfbcd9/untitled2+detail4.jpg)
Pelicans and waves awake me at 6am from a happy excursion [details]
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Pelicans and waves awake me at 6am from a happy excursion [details]







Public park field trip

Public park field trip (display) 2022 52 x 35 mixed media on silk polyester

Public park field trip (detail)

Public park field trip (detail)

Public park field trip (detail)

Public park field trip (detail)

Public park field trip (detail)

Public park field trip 2022 52 x 35 in mixed media on silk polyester









Gone kite

Gone kite (display) 2022 52 x 42 in mixed media on sythetic silk

Gone kite (detail)

Gone kite (detail)

Gone kite (detail)

Gone kite (detail)


































Bright bold colors on deep black backgrounds, my surreal architectural paintings show abstracted and distorted places from memory - a garden, an apartment, and my imagination; inviting viewers to lose themselves in their maze-like quality. In this series titled Memory Map (2022), I address the experience of cultural displacement, mobility, and disjunction, I draw on sensations of distance and detachment to conjure new worlds. Through Escher-like spaces, I explore my relationship with lost memories and forgotten specifics. Home represents safety, comfort, and longing; yet I question whether these feelings are attached to a real location or an imaginary space. The works combine mediated representations of existing places with architectural forms and cultural motifs, recalling Song dynasty Chinese mountain paintings as disappearing heritage, a home, and a shelter. The renderings of hybrid spaces exist in the zone between reality and invention, present and past, physical and digital.