Despite being born into the crossroad of a burgeoning digital age, Yin is always transfixed by the now seemingly bygone era of the 80’s, drawn to its richness of life, mesmerised by the neon drenched summer nights. Upon discovering the synthwave genre (an internet subculture paying tribute to the lost “golden days” of the 80’s predominantly in the form of music) in 2020, Yin began exploring the visual possibilities to represent such historical aesthetic through recreating the synthwave visual language using traditional artistic practice. In creating the painting, Yin experimented with airbrush to achieve an even application of paints. Fluorescent colour was also employed to emulate a brightly
glowing sky at dusk, a common visual language within synthwave graphics that blurs the boundary between natural lighting and synthetic manmade neon lightings. Yin’s inclusion of the retroesque subject matter palm trees; As well as the solitary figure and looming concrete structure echo the artist’s personal longings towards an era never to be experienced, spreading a shade of distant melancholy across the silent landscape.