ABOUT
ewse is a Chinese-American lesbian painter and poet. She was born in New York City to immigrant parents and currently lives in Austin, TX. She is part of the Something Cool Studios artist collective and has shown her work in group exhibitions at Propaganda HQ, the Cathedral ATX, and Something Cool Studios.
Mewse uses an evocative combination of poetry and multimedia materials to examine and play with what lights her creativity – capturing the beauty of women, both within and without, through a dark, romantic lens. Having lived in both China and the US, she brings the breadth of her life experience with vastly different cultures and languages to explore the varying facets of sapphic love and the female experience.
art is a
love letter to life
PORTFOLIO
where the sweetness lies
watercolor on paper
9" x 12"
her scars are the same color
as her nails
and i wonder what they taste
in ecstacy,
dead skin and
aftershave, bath water creeping
across the tile floor like a silent dream
sometimes i wish my reflection
were a screenplay of the fantasized me
the microfilms made by passerby
a meandering speculation of
where the sweetness lies
between a pair of
red rights that stretch like skin
shifting somewhere between blood
and blush
on a schoolgirl's cheek
a painting inspired by a poem of mine...
reincarnation
lithograph on paper
7"3/4 x 5"3/4
wanted
lithograph on paper
7"3/4 x 5"3/4
self portrait
watercolor on paper
9" x 12"
sunshine
watercolor on paper
7" x 10"
maybe I'll begin with how
I smell the sunshine in your skin
how
smoke is woven into
your flesh and
you smell like, home
like closets full of love
and summer, windows down
wind between your fingers
midnight blues
watercolor on paper
11" x 8.2"
i see that you're the color of midnight
but inside my mind
you're cerulean blue
Rainy day
watercolor on paper
11" x 8.2"
you are heavy
with the tears you think
no one will hold –
but just know, my lover
wherever this river flows
my heart
will go
with yours
morning, sunshine
watercolor on paper
11" x 8"
it will always be you
behind that door
and i think
that's what love is
like home
watercolor & Pencil
on paper
11" x 8"
wherever our heads lie together
we will call
home
phantom
resin on mirror
6" x 6"
I want you so badly,
because you could be anyone
amaretto sour
resin, mirror, watercolor
9" x 9"
the ache of wanting you
the fear of having you
ocean
resin, mirror, glitter, translucent film
6" x 6"
I want to see myself
in the mirrored surface
of your words
ruby
resin, mirror, ink, translucent film
6" x 6"
every breath i take
is trying to find its way back home
