a r t i s t . s t a t e m e n t
Ainsi likes the idea of duality: the joy in sorrow, the life in death, the beauty in the grotesque. She combines this sense of clash and struggle in both her illustration and sequential work. If sorrow is pain, then let emotion manifest-- and let the viewer untangle the details as far his eyes will allow. Entrenched in her meticulous, heavy handed visuals, Ainsi has sought to create a unique style influenced by Eastern and Western comics to evoke a unique emotional response to the expressive exaggeration of her ill-fated characters and their dire conditions. Every glance at Ainsi's low-art style in high-art form makes it more about the connection of the work to the viewer than to the creator: from every unwavering eye, from every blood spattered mouth, from every clenched and corded hand.
Ainsi's art, in the end, is about the reaction in you.