Homesick is at bay.

30.4 cm x 40.6 cm

     Homesickness is never far away. I've been encountering it since last August. Today I found nowhere to turn to because it is everywhere.
     From the early morning, I signed in the Facebook and was drawn to an album of friends. The album is all about my lovely hometown, Tainan. I was particularly moved and overwhelmed by one snapshot taken near Confucian Temple. And I shared an article written by a foreigner who first visited Tainan later. I am very proud of my hometown because it is so favored by people from outside and at the same time, I was so emotional and wished I could be there at that time being. So this is where the subject matter came from. 
     I'd like to note that, yesterday I read an interview with a portrait artist named Anne Harris and I really love and relate to this quotes: "I make a lot of changes. I don't know where I'm going; I don't have a final image in my head, but rather a broad idea, and a feeing I'm after, a kind of intensity. I start a painting, waiting for it to look back at me. Then the painting tells me where to go. I usually get into trouble, take a wrong turn at some point and a lot happens, both bad and good, as I struggle out of the mess."
     I am very well understanding the situation she's into, and I appreciate her confession, which is so straightforward. And I was exactly in that scenario when painting this one.