The layered photograph features the famed landmark icon as a static and posed subject
reunion with Me
and surrounded by desert flora such as flowering opuntia and verdant desert plants
featuring a skeleton clad in a tie
Fish and coral are melded with computers
Mirage 3, 2025, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 in. / 121.92 x 91.44 cm. painting The layered photograph features theMirage 3, Xinyan Yu, 2025, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 in. 121. 92 x 91. 44 cm. This body of work explores shifting boundaries between the real and the surreal, weaving imagined forms, organic energies, and landscapes. Inspired by nature, personal experience, and emotions tied to transformation, it creates space for reflection on fragility and resilience.