To Eddie Kang, art is a medium for conveying happiness. This artist embodies in his picture-planes a so-called 'Happy Place,' that is, a world devoid of ill intentions. Through his paintings of ideal happy places, contrasting with performance and competition oriented contemporary society and highly individualistic urban society, Eddie Kang gives comfort to tired modern humans. In his works, embodied through unlimited genre including painting, sculpture and new media, appear imaginary characters that he has created. These characters remind viewers of pleasant memories from their youth and happy experiences of everyday life. They are elements that communicate happiness. Kang's work, characterised by thick contour lines, use of primary colours and narrative images—similar to the properties of comics—is often categorised as a new style called 'animamix,' which is a combination of animation and comics. Using the characteristics of the familiar genre known as comics, the artist not only evokes pure childhood emotions, but has dreamed up a utopian space into which he invites exhausted modern people to take a rest.
