Hi, I’m Janie

I used to think digital work was cold and impersonal.

No matter how expansive the interior space appears on screen, it remains flat. I cannot touch it, smell it, or feel any resistance. For a long time, I trusted paper more. Paper absorbs water, brushstrokes leave traces, and mistakes remain clearly visible. These marks hold profound meaning for me, they prove something once existed. Photography captures a moment, and much of my work adopts photorealism. When I paint from photographs, I stretch that instant into hours. I reconstruct light, adjust the atmosphere, and compress memories onto the canvas, making it carry far more than a camera could ever record.

I've always loved challenging my own limits, refusing to stand still. Moving from static painting into the world of moving images, I discovered that hand-drawn animation could convey texture too. Watercolor bleeds into every frame, the edges of the paper, the handmade irregularities, these are all expressions of warmth, their own inherent temperature.

Now, 3D technology has completely transformed my understanding of temperature. Structures I once deemed lifeless have become controllable atmospheres. Light carries weight, matter possesses density, and camera angles dictate distance. In animation, I no longer wait for the perfect moment, I create it. I can suspend objects mid-air, make explosions expand before reversing, design rhythms of impact and stillness. It's about deciding how long a moment endures.

Regardless of the medium, I focus on one thing: whether an image feels alive. Does it breathe? Does it hold tension? Even when composed of pixels, can it convey warmth? I no longer distinguish between the digital and physical worlds. I evaluate both through warmth. My work isn't an endorsement or rejection of technology, but an ongoing dialogue with technology itself while holding onto the act of drawing by hand.