ℑngrid Lai is an artist with a turbulent past. Seen as a childhood prodigy from an early age for both her music and art, Ingrid has constantly struggled with other people’s expectations of her. This manifested in her relationship with her parents, who encouraged her to study and practise to a point where she fell out of love with music entirely, keeping her art as a private and personal matter that the demands of her parents could not reach. Her apathy stems from her fear of failure that she has tried to repress for years..

Ingrid possesses the uncanny ability to tune out from the chaos of the world, to experience life merely as a spectator. With an artistic mind that perceives life through a lens of creative abstraction, Ingrid sees the world with a dispassionate gaze, which, in turn, grants her the ability to see the beauty in the mundane.

This apathy she possesses is not born of callousness, rather a personal choice to opt out of life’s complexities when she knows it will not benefit her. Her languid, lackadaisical attitude allows her to absorb the ephemerality of each passing moment without being ensnared in life’s emotional web.

Looking past her calm exterior, one can see a brilliant mind teeming with imagination, expressed primarily through her art. Through her impersonal outlook on humanity, Ingrid has crafter a profound understanding of the human experience which she evokes in her art. At the end of the day, this is what makes her so popular amongst consumers of the arts.

Through the authenticity of her character, and despite her outward emotional unavailability, the audience roots for Ingrid as a main character, and she acts as a beacon of relatability for some. Her nonchalance and indifference becomes a refreshing change of perspective, a gentle reminder that it’s okay not to conform to the frenetic pace of the world.