Hare Sea Serpent

is the creative identity of a Chinese-American artist whose practice bridges Eastern and Western cultural worlds through expressive mark-making, dynamic color, and deeply personal visual storytelling.

The name is not arbitrary — it is a portrait of a family.

In the Chinese Zodiac, the Hare represents the artist’s father: the tireless creative engine, the original spark, the one whose imagination set everything in motion. The Serpent is the artist’s mother: watchful, wise, and fiercely protective — a force that has always circled close, deflecting harm and holding space for growth. The logo captures this exactly — a hare in full stride, encircled by a serpent — motion and protection, ambition and love, forever intertwined.

Then there is the Sea.

The artist is also a Serpent by Chinese Zodiac, but one drawn irresistibly to the water. As a certified scuba instructor who has dove across five of the seven continents, the ocean is not just a backdrop — it is a second studio, a site of discovery, and a reminder that the world is vast, layered, and endlessly worth exploring. The ”Sea” in Hare Sea Serpent is that restlessness made permanent: the belief that the deepest work happens when you go beneath the surface.

That philosophy extends to the studio practice itself. Working across painting, sculpture, and printmaking, the work synthesizes observed reality with the emotional resonance of lived experience — landscapes, portraiture, and narrative compositions that ask where we come from, where we belong, and what we carry between cultures.

This artistic vision has been shaped by an extraordinary network of international residencies across Lithuania, Italy, the Netherlands, Latvia, the United States, Iceland, Macedonia, and Finland. Each residency became an immersion — not just in geography, but in community. Through exhibitions, artist talks, and public demonstrations, the practice functions as both personal inquiry and cultural bridge-building, using travel and cross-cultural encounter as primary research tools.

Two animals. One ocean. Infinite horizon.