The Protagonist 主人公系列

This series was developed as part of my MFA illustration project at the University of Manitoba. Through a combination of large-scale watercolor and acrylic paintings, the works explore themes of memory construction and the fragmentation of personal identity. 本系列是我在马尼托巴大学攻读艺术硕士期间的小说插图创作项目。作品涵盖大尺幅的水彩与丙烯绘画，围绕“个人记忆的建构”与“身份的断裂”这两个核心主题展开。Rather than presenting a linear narrative, the images reflect a process of visual memory reconstruction—fragmented, elusive, and repeatedly reshaped through recollection. These works do not aim to represent memory as fact, but instead as something uncertain, layered, and subjectively intensified through the act of remembering. 图像并不试图构建连贯的叙事，而是呈现出一种碎片化、若即若离的视觉记忆重构过程。作品所追寻的记忆，并非真实的再现，而是模糊的、层叠的，随着一次次回忆不断被强化的自我建构。In this way, the protagonist is never fixed; identity becomes a site of negotiation between the remembered self and the imagined one. 因此，在作品中，“主人公”始终处于变动之中。身份不再是一个稳定的存在，而是记忆中的自我与想象中的自我之间持续协商的结果。