Red - Jay Chou Portrait with Coffee Cup Stains

This is shown through the portrait as a whole – how it’s formed by many individual rings, many of them broken and imperfect like fallen autumn leaves, forming Jay Chou’s portrait. The story of the song is about Jay traveling back 20 years in time and meeting a girl. Jay disappears one day, and the girl only has a memory of how he looks like, so she sketches his portrait out. My painting is meant to look like a sepia-toned old photograph to capture the essence of this story.”