Ou Xuan’s creative core lies in a series of translated dialogues with inner emotions. She transforms the flowing, shifting abstract feelings of everyday life into visual form, using motifs such as floral fabric, small shoes, parrots, and more as vessels. Through these, she depicts the delicate and subtle psychological states between herself and others—sometimes intimate, sometimes distant. Thus, the works are not merely representations of mood, but visualizations of emotional distance.

In her paintings, those who appear close are not necessarily connected, and those who seem far apart are not necessarily estranged. At times, figures that look interdependent may in fact be separated by inner walls; while those set apart may remain closely bound through shared memories or longing born of empathy. Such immeasurable emotional ties can only be perceived with the heart.