After completing her master's degree, Li Xinyu chose to leave home alone. Over the course of a few years, she moved between cities, living at various times in Nagoya, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Suzhou, and Qingdao. In 2023, having experienced multiple partings — both of life and death — she developed a deep appreciation for the passage of time. For her, every single second is a "fleeting instant": no two moments overlap, and no two states are ever the same. Hsin-Yu Lee works in a melancholic, feminine lyrical register with an illustrative quality, depicting themes of women, flowers, the cosmos, and the visualization of consciousness. Her work frequently employs metallic powders, mineral pigments, gemstone powders, and various forms of mica to engage with the irreplaceable physicality of time — freezing the physical instant she seeks to express through the shifting light of celestial bodies across the day (sun and stars) and the varied refractions produced by different light sources interacting with the work. Her 2026 practice centers on the self-surveillance of women in the wake of the internet explosion. Drawing on publicly visible female figures found on specific social media platforms, she works through a method of reverse creation in which AI directs the artist. Under the logic of current AI development, the resulting images present faces with a wax-figure quality, accompanied by subtly irrational imagery and ornamentation — garden scenes rendered in a state of dependence on AI.