ELLFIE CHEN
PORTFOLIO
ARTIST STATEMENT
Imagining art brings me ambition and purpose.
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Giving life to my imagination brings me challenge and excitement.
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Achieving those challenges brings me satisfaction and happiness.
Art inspires me to aim higher, to learn from my mistakes, and to feel accomplished. I do what I do because art gives me the drive and the motivation to push my creativity forward. I thirst for the feeling of happiness and belonging that the creative process allows me to feel from the beginning to the end of the journey.
I make my artistic decisions following my gut feeling. I like to go with the flow and do what my instincts pull me towards. I think it's best to feel inspired, to let that inspiration drive me, and see where it takes me. Fighting through the difficulties throughout the process is a part of learning. I believe we can fail better by using each mistake and accident as a chance to improve and discover.
In my past, I have worked with medias such as photography, graphics, and text. Written work and storytelling intrigues me a lot. In 2018, I wrote a short novel inspired by Ernest Hemingway's literary style. I also work as a fashion model, so editorial photography is a big influence to me. Some fashion photographers that inspire me include Meiji Nguyen, Charlotte Wales, Jingna Zhang, and Jeremy Choh.
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From now on, I hope to explore more about film medias, such as camerawork, montage, and sound.
