What are your current sources of inspiration?
JJ: For a long time, I was drawn to Chinese silk scroll paintings, Japanese wood-block prints, Shanghai advertising posters, anatomical drawings, and etchings by Dürer, but these days I’m focused more on unlocking the imagery that lies deep in the recesses of my mind. Hence the stream of hallucinatory forms and phantoms in my sketchbooks and drawings.
Where do your narratives come from?
JJ: They come from quiet, vulnerable moments, from silly coincidences and sensations of déjà vu. From days conquered, devoured, and excreted.