I was inspired by a picture that is half human face and half animal, a rabbit I guess. I don’t really remember which social media I saw that picture because it was a long time ago. For my art piece, the audience I want to approach is everyone, probably the young generation. The left side is art, I intentionally make it drama to create more related to what art looks like for people in general. On the right-hand side is a PC that represents the business field because businessmen who deal with money and numbers rely on computer apps like Excel. The whirlpool in the center is my brain, and the blue circles inside the whirlpool combined with the yellow ribbon that crosses the brain mean that I was endlessly entangled. The top of both items is a heart and cash–these are like the starting points to the art and business accordingly. The small white person is another me, the me that I’m afraid I will be. If I can only see the money and lose my ethics, I will be sucked into this whirlpool within the computer, because the attraction of money to people is also a bottomless pit. If you noticed, that pile of dollars above the computer is not the actual green of dollars, nor is the gold that people easily associate with. When I organized the elements I wanted to include, I was reminded of the artwork The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, which I thought would be a good comparison with the position of money in anyone who works in the business field. Death or living depends on your ethics, your morality. What does money mean to you? Anyway, I name this piece Internal Struggle but I used bright colors to express my passion for both and also to have a contrast: it used to be a struggle but now I made it. It’s like I’m saying “Don’t worry, take it easy. Everything will be fine.”
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