The author of the Dissertation will share her perspective of her artworks from the perspective of a foreigner working in Shanghai with dual citizenship from Taiwan and US. Author’s artwork is based on the symbols and the gaming structure. Though the creation of the art is not limited on the combination of the subject and object, the interconnection of the subject and object shape the gaming structure and the content. As a result, the author adopted the gaming structure to reflect the reality of the society.

Author’s artwork motivation is closely associated with Lord of Flies’ innocence child game and symbols. The story seems to be a group of kids went to extreme in their child game, but the morel of the story is about war and humanity. The dissertation reference Linda Norchie’s Imaginary of Orient , Symbolism, and Artist Rene Margritte, and these perspectives support the author in art construction. Deconstructing the reality to something is waiting to be reproduced, to be reconnected to symbols, and to reconstruct to something more than real, “surreal”.