Despite her freshly-graduated status from the New York City School of Visual Arts, Li has already begun to prove herself as a unique artist through her intricate and deeply personal style that evolved during her college years, but also through her own interests, some of which include Dunhuang wall paintings, Mandarin films, and Southeast Asian Islamic paintings. Her influence from alternative Scottish band, Cocteau Twins, is not difficult to catch sight of in some of her work either, like Genesis and Girls’ Bathhouse.
Li beautifully exemplifies women’s relationships and the purest forms of affection which we as women show one another; she does so without falling victim to fetishisation, like many depictions of female relationships in today’s media do, bringing us back to the innocence of our youth and granting us security and pleasure in dreaming of a matriarchal utopia.