The composition of this work resembles a film storyboard or a frame-by-frame narrative in animation. It reflects the kind of spatial structure that Lii Jiin Shiow often experimented with during her time in Paris, sometimes incorporating multiple mirrored reflections, and sometimes depicting shifting images and spaces across continuous time. This work foreshadows the spatial segmentation and exploration found in her later Roaming Everywhere series, revealing subtle dialogues between the self and the surrounding objects, between the self and others, and between the self and the space.
Lii Jiin Shiow
The Search of Self
1984
Watercolor, pastel, pencil on paper
64 x 35.5 cm
Collection of Chiayi Art Museum
