Kuan-Hsuan Lu
KUAN-HSUAN LU works between commercial design and personal creative practice, a balance that has shaped both her process and visual language. Early in her career, her training emphasized structure, logic, and problem-solving, grounding her work in clarity and function. Over time, she recognized the limits of purely functional design. Certain emotions, tensions, and observations resisted resolution through structure alone, prompting her to turn more fully toward illustration and visual storytelling as a way to engage inner experience with greater honesty.
Her work frequently returns to themes of growth, transformation, emotional tension, and internal dialogue. Lu is particularly attentive to quiet moments of change, instances where something is forming beneath the surface or approaching a point of emergence. These moments are not symbolic abstractions but reflections drawn from lived experience and close observation of everyday life.
Rather than directing viewers toward a fixed interpretation, Lu uses imagery to translate internal states into open visual forms. The work is designed to hold emotional space, allowing viewers to locate fragments of their own experiences within it. Meaning is not imposed but invited.
When she encounters creative blocks, Lu avoids forcing production. She steps back into daily life, observing her surroundings, shifting mediums, or allowing herself periods of pause. Distance and stillness are treated as active parts of the process, often creating the conditions for ideas to return naturally.
Lu hopes her work offers a sense of being understood rather than decoded. If an image causes a viewer to pause, feel recognition, or project their own emotions into the work, she considers it successful. There is no expectation of a correct reading, only an openness to connection.
She is currently continuing the development of her personal illustration series while exploring new forms of visual storytelling across different platforms. Looking ahead, LU is interested in expanding her practice through cross-disciplinary and cross-medium approaches, creating opportunities for her work to engage broader audiences and participate in new creative dialogues.
