In recent works, Dou’s focus lies within the realms of painting. Her artworks seamlessly integrate a plethora of man-made objects based on organic materials, including but not limited to wood carvings, jade, stone, brass, taxidermy, religious figurines, and relics. These objects are stretched, distorted, or magnified in part or as a whole, resulting in entirely new, blurred boundaries within the realm of artificial imagery. Through personal understanding of manmade objects and nature, she explores and expresses emotions and imagination.

Born in China and graduated from the Experimental Art Department of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts(CAFA) in 2021, earning MFA. Currently residing and working in K’jipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Her work aims to explore the semiotics of passing time, and the somatic experience of conscious and subconscious memory. Elements of fantasy emerge occasionally, suggesting the psyche’s vulnerability to muddiness, and as a way of offering optical euphemism and allegory. Her paintings implement visual ciphers, which attempt to decode how cycles of trauma, addiction, and power impact a sense of identity and autonomy. She is interested in contemplating how we are often unconsciously at the mercy of these forces, and how they ambiently flavor the nature of our lived experience, as well as our capacity for remembering, both universally and subjectively. Occasionally referencing a collective visual vernacular, in addition to experiences that are deeply personal, her work is as much about reckoning with the oppression of time as it is interested in cultivating a reverence for impermanence.