About
Yaxuan is a Diploma in Fine Arts graduate from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. Her practice centres on the use of natural materials such as fallen leaves and stones, shaped by an ongoing inquiry into happiness, understood not as an image, but as a state experienced through the act of making.
Yaxuan’s work reflects an interest in repetition, impermanence and the rhythms of the natural world. Her use of materials considers both fragility and duration, with processes of preservation and decay coexisting.
Her practice does not aim to instruct or persuade. Instead, it offers a space for pause and reflection, where viewers are invited to encounter a quiet, contemplative moment shaped by attention, care and time.
The Third Solution to Happiness
The Third Solution to Happiness emerges from a personal exploration of three shifting understandings of happiness.
The first involved painting food, based on the belief that depicting “happy” subjects would make the process itself joyful. It did not.
The second turned to painting mandalas on stones and leaves. Through repetitive, almost meditative mark making, the process began to quiet the mind. The act itself brought a sense of ease, though it remained centred on the self.
The third takes form as an installation—sealed fallen leaves pinned in a careful arrangement on the wall, and painted stones gathered on a table below. The leaves are light and fragile, gradually curling, fading and falling. They are offered outward, to nature and to those who encounter them. The stones, by contrast, carry weight. Their repeated patterns mark a process of staying, of learning to sit with what cannot be resolved. They remain.
Together, the work does not seek to explain or conclude. It exists in a quiet balance, one above, one below; one transient, one enduring. Here, happiness is understood not as something to hold, but as a quiet act of letting go.
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