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“Paw Me Up” (喵喵爪)
Physics is the study of the universe, from the smallest subatomic particles to the largest galaxies. It can also explain luck, since all of life is a matter of cause and effect. While it seems arbitrary and without method there is a very calculated system behind it all. The difference lies in how we perceive opportunities or mischances. UCLA Professor Maia Young finds that personality and attitude play into luck more than we realize. Being optimistic about life may just influence you to try harder. It’s this persistence that has a self-reinforcing effect, resulting in a “good luck cycle”. Believe and you will be rewarded! Luck and our behavior are very much intertwined and connected at the hip. The jīnmāo (招财猫) or Chinese lucky golden cat, is a symbol of wealth and prosperity ubiquitous in Asian cultures. Adorning businesses, homes, and windows of all kinds, author Katherine M. Ball describes it as “a simple and popular form of magic”. A magic trick that’s sure to sweep you off your feet and never let go.
200*200cm
RGB LED display, acrylic painting, Vietnamese linen, teakwood
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“Eye Of Providence” (明眸)
Some people think that if everyone went around doing whatever they wanted, the world would be pure unadulterated chaos. Just imagine giving in to any and every desire, want, or need. What kind of world would that be? Aleister Crowley believes that one should “do what thou wilt”. In other words, go ahead and chase whatever your heart desires. Determine your own true will and follow it! It is worth pursuing whatever you are willing to do. In Greek mythology Hedone is an important philosophical concept, personified as the goddess of pleasure and enjoyment. According to Aristotelian ethics, pleasure will reveal a person’s true character, and therefore is worth exploring. An example of this concept is “oikeia hedone” or proper pleasure. Similarly, German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s interpretation is that enjoyment is a movement of the soul which results in tranquility and peace. Following this line of logic, one must definitely “do what thou wilt”. And yes, someone will always be watching, but don’t you think that just makes it more fun?
200*200cm
Hand-design carpet
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“Spring Zephyr” (春风和煦)
Greek god of the west wind Zephyrus blows his sweet breath across the land creating a soft gentle breeze. Vivid butterflies do their sparkling dance, bringing with them the promise of spring and shine. In Chinese thought, spring is associated with growth, wind, patience, and altruism. In fact, there is a Chinese system known as “wuxing” (五行) or the five phases, that is used to explain a variety of phenomena, for example the seasons. Spring is a period of growth and movement, summer is a period of blooming, late summer is associated with stability, autumn is a period of harvesting, and winter is a period of rest and stillness. Those who are watchful and vigilant will soon realize these five elements cycle in and around everything. Which is why this philosophy is so engrained in Chinese culture. Think about it, all things sprout and grow and eventually wither away. The wuxing are thought to be cosmic agents which describe the transformations of nature and are widely used in Chinese philosophy, as well as disparate fields like astrology, martial arts, and even the art of catching butterflies! Spring is the easiest of seasons, just watch our winged friends ride the winds nonchalantly and without resistance. Remember spring is just the beginning!
102*102cm
RGB LED display, acrylic painting, Vietnamese linen, teakwood
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“Blinky” (红色幽灵)
It’s the thrill of the chase for me, truly it is. I’m kind of an expert when it comes to these things. Believe me I’ve been working incessantly since my creation in 1980! Around here I’m known as the commander of the ghostly foursome. Obstinate, headstrong, relentless. Some athletes are made, but I was born ready baby! Hunting, pursuing, tailing Pac-Man day in and day out. It’s only living… “It’s a living” I always say! When my eyes focus on that greedy man, I can’t help but run after him. And run I do. Left, right, up, down, backwards, and forwards! I’m there, I’m always there. You know, I never understood his need for over indulgence and consumption. What is that even about? I prefer the simpler things in life. But hey that’s just me. You do you, and let me focus on my task. I am a man of my word. This haunting is one you won’t forget.
39*39cm
RGB LED display, one-way glass, teakwood
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“Wild Blue” (野蓝)
It’s a blue-butterfly day, and the sky is such because particles in Earth’s atmosphere scatter sunlight in all directions. In 1871, Lord Rayleigh published a paper explaining this phenomenon in great detail. The optical phenomenon known as Rayleigh Scattering, refers to the dispersing of electromagnetic radiation, such as light, by particles of a smaller wavelength. Out of all the colors, blue light travels as the smallest waves and results in that wild blue presented on the skies each day. Join the dance of the one-day butterflies, the mythological nymphs, enchanting triplets twirling in the blue heavens. The word for butterfly in formal Greek is “psyche”, as it’s believed to be the soul of the dead. It’s also the name of a mortal woman who was released from death by Zeus and granted immortality. Psyche’s mythological image in ancient art is portrayed with grand butterfly wings. Freed from death, the body of the soul flutters joyously into the forever blue.
51*51cm
RGB LED display, acrylic painting, Vietnamese linen, teakwood
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“Nanke Dream” (南柯一梦)
“The Governor of Nanke” (南柯太守传) is a Tang dynasty short story about a man living an entire generation in the great kingdom of Ashendon, only to suddenly wake up and realize it was all a dream. Despite the vividness of that world, and the seeming passing of time, only a few hours had gone by. This legend is curiously similar to “Alice in Wonderland”, where the main protagonist travels to a fantasy world of her own in the hopes of finding herself. Clearly, the subject of dreams has been embedded into the very fabric of our being. While some theories suggest dreams are due to random brain activation, most agree with the Freudian theory which claims that they can reveal hidden emotions and desires. A royal road to the unconscious if you will! In ancient Rome and Greece, people believed dreams were messages sent directly from the gods that could predict the future. Whether we’re talking about interpreting the past or the time ahead it’s clear there is hidden meaning in our reveries. I wonder what secrets we’ll uncover when the lights turn off.
102*102cm
RGB LED display, acrylic painting, Vietnamese linen, teakwood
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“To the Moon and Back” (月亮在家迎你)
I’m cleaning this entryway for you to come through and I’m really counting on you to take me to the moon and back. Halfway won’t do. I want the ride, sure, but that’s not my only hope with this exchange. The amount of upkeep and diligent attention to detail I’ve invested just to make sure you notice when you come through…that deserves the hard promise of a full round trip. That deserves taking me up to the highest mountain and carrying me all the way back down, even if you break your back doing it. I don’t care about the amount of time it takes, I don’t care about the effort or the words or the intention. I only care that you take me somewhere I’ve never been and bring me back in one piece. Until then I’ll just sort of putz around and keep making sure everything looks tip-top.
65*46cm
RGB LED display, Chinese papercut, Vietnamese linen, teakwood
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“Rapt With Wine And Moon” (美酒美月)
The Yangtze never looked so cozy as the night Li Bai tried to hug the moon. The old tale goes something like this: Li Bai, a famous drunk and poet, was, well, drunk. Of course he was also artsy, and you know how artsy folks get when they drink, right? On that fateful night Li Bai took his boat out to the middle of the Yangtze River (because why not?). What he found in the middle of the river was the moon, staring up at him. “Three cheers!” he may have said as he moved in to embrace his old friend. Li Bai drowned that night, but his poems live on forever. Li Bai is sort of like a Chinese Dionysus—except Li Bai was a man and not a god. Li Bai has been honored as the great man he was by artists through the generations. Soami painted him in nature, and our Liu Dao collective calligraphs his poems in wild cursive script while enraptured in the warm fuzzy glow of a wine buzz as one stumbling down the mountain after perfecting drunken Kung Fu.
146*206cm
Chinese ink and acrylic painting on canvas, teakwood
Art for sale : kiwi@island6.org
“Měinǚ Maniac” (美女疯子)
Do you find difficulties blending in to the seemingly cheerful Asian culture? Do you sometimes find yourself lost in a busy crowd you just can’t relate to? Even after years and years living on the oriental land do you still feel alienated? If you’re not enjoying your life here, look away please. But if you are, please do allow me to share something with you here - my favorite thing to do living here is to watch the Měinǚ Maniacs. The selfie ladies you see on the street know precisely how to fully realize their desires and to be desired publicly. They know how to pose cute, pretending not to give a shit about their larger audience that’s living in the moment with them and watching the whole spectacle. Me, I just shift my gaze a little bit to see the longer view of things… a picture much larger than any of the ones being taken by the beautiful maniacs I live amongst.
46*65cm
RGB LED display, acrylic painting, Vietnamese linen, teakwood
Art for sale : kiwi@island6.org
“Lawson Station” (罗森站)
Lawson Station. A cornucopia of freshly made baozi (steamed buns), tea eggs, noodles, and of course hot drinks. What started as a small dairy milk store has burst into one of the most popular convenience store chains in the world. Naturally one would question their recipe for success? I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase by Roman philosopher Seneca, “Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.” This is true, but I think he was only partially correct. In fact, Seneca left out a critical component: Action. With this perspective the complete formula should be, “Luck is when opportunity meets preparation plus action”. Think about it, when opportunity and preparation meet there’s actually only potential for luck to occur, but without action then nothing happens. It’s a missed opportunity. Like taking a wrong step and suddenly losing your balance. You see in the grand scheme of things it’s all a balancing act.
65.5*46cm
RGB LED display, Chinese papercut, Vietnamese linen, teakwood
Art for sale : kiwi@island6.org
“Circular Koi” (圆锦鲤)
In ancient and contemporary art, fish are symbols of transformation and permanence. Carp and Water Weeds by Yōgetsu, shows the heavy brevity that such pieces have; simple, the dual carp fish swim in a weedy pond while a Daoist poem floats above. Created in a tradition of master-pupil relationships, this piece is grounded in a commitment to incremental change. In Paul Klee’s Fish Magic, he takes the fish out of water and puts them somewhere in between the Earth and the stars where time is waiting to be unveiled. He places the fish among flowers, suns, and faces, positing fish as a symbol of nonconformity possessing a transcendental ability against physical and psychical limiting factors such as space and time. This is congruent with Daoist rationality and inspires a conception of the limitless potential that comes with advanced technology. Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Still Living sees him suspend a tiger shark in formaldehyde. This shows to his audience that preservation is a mental construct, that even the fastest and most powerful predators one day end. Hirst’s piece is yet another congruency with Daoist notions of preservation and permanence by also indicating the preserving power that comes from the integration of computer systems with daily life.
124.6*124.6cm
RGB LED display, sand & resin coating, teak wood
Art for sale : kiwi@island6.org
“The Girl From The Gallery Next Door” (隔壁画廊的女孩)
Birds-of-paradise, along with bowerbirds, shrikes, and honeyeaters are part of lineage Corvida. Structure determines function? Maybe. But if this is true, functions don’t always exhibit the same way. I don’t want to open old wounds about the nature of nature-versus-nurture, but even the Godliest among us must admit that environment matters, history matters, circumstances matter, especially when it comes to family. For example, male birds-of-paradise of sexually dimorphic species are world famous for their wild displays in efforts to secure the perfect (re: willing) mate. Some species go from bird-shaped to ballerina dancer in one breath; some wave their wings above their heads back and forth, distracting and hypnotizing their target females; others use their wings like a matador cape while dilating and contracting their pupils alternately with dizzying speed; still others puff their plumage in quite unimaginable ways, all for the sake of the big win. And bowerbirds—don’t get us started on bowerbirds! Much like the rich local Shanghainese, bowerbirds build brightly-colored luxury structures. And almost every single time, it works.
39*39cm
RGB LED display, one-way glass, teakwood
Art for sale : kiwi@island6.org
“After Dusk” (黄昏之后)
I have watched the past two hundred and thirty nine sunsets alone. There is something haunting about a sunset, the finality of everything you can and will achieve encapsulated into one sweeping moment - blink and you’ll miss it. But really it’s what follows after that concerns you. The way you watch, powerless, as everything you know morphs into a sinister version of itself. Yes, there is real cruelty in darkness. You try to relive the feeling of warmth over and over again, embellishing its loving embrace; remembering how everything was OK when sunlight bathed your naked flesh. Then the stark reality hits you; no one is there to coo you to sleep anymore. Over and over again you search the bleak expanse of nothing, trying to take refuge in the life you had before you were unwillingly plunged into the abyss. But for now you take a breath and try to enjoy this moment, alone.
89.5*89.5cm
RGB LED display, Chinese papercut, paper collage, Corian&teak
Art for sale : kiwi@island6.org
“Fluchtpunkt” (消失点)
The vanishing point describes an optical phenomenon in a picture where two parallel lines converge and vanish into one single line. In German, this use of perspective is called “Fluchtpunkt“, which literally translates to “escape point”. And indeed, Renaissance painters, like Masaccio and Dürer introduced this way of seeing to depict urban and interior sites more realistically as Florence and Nurnberg were growing and seen more by people as destinations to escape to. But that’s not the only way one can get lost in art. Another artistic phenomenon called immersion describes the loss of conscious connection with reality while engaging with the medium. In ancient times, the frescos of the Villa of Mysteries in Pompei were the first artistic immersions. Nowadays, the 360° VR-glasses serve as an immersive gaming experience, in which one can jump into a digital world to get away from reality. This offers a chance to blur the border between running away and arriving, real and fake, analogue and digital, letting them converge into only one point. And when we get there, we will find ourselves in a world with an infinite number of vanishing points where escape won’t be necessary.
102*102cm
RGB LED display, Chinese papercut on Plexiglas, paper collage
Art for sale : kiwi@island6.org
“Sanlunche” (三轮车)
As the Chengyu suggests, “a fur coat can be made of scraps” (集腋成裘). A man steering a sanlunche (tricycle) sees everything while constantly acclimatising to new surroundings. But don’t expect any deep and meaningful words from him. His wheels keep on turning. What about you? Would you rather see change approaching slowly in the distance or have a head-on collision with it in the moment? Maybe it doesn’t matter, we all read the signs differently. A simple fact of life is that change is inevitable and it continues to happen at a rapid rate in Shanghai. The city’s physical appearance is ever-evolving with an endless amount of buildings being erected to accommodate growth. But it’s not like that would impress William Shakespeare or anything. “No! Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change,” wrote the poet in 1609. “Thy pyramids built up with newer might. To me are nothing novel, nothing strange; They are but dressings of a former sight.” He’d have hated the Chinese character Chai (拆), meaning to demolish, then. When it gets painted on houses and tower blocks in the country today it means the buildings’ days are numbered. People have protested against these land seizures but for most, the generous payoff that comes with such an order far outweighs sentimental value. Old hats might say unsettling demolition jobs symbolise an erosion of cultural heritage and that new paths are being laid at the expense of the past. Suzhou creek riverbank has seen its fair share of change over the years. If the sanlunche could talk, it would tell a thousand stories. But take it with a pinch of salt, as it’s probably just a load of old rubbish.
51.3*51.3cm
TFT displays, CCD cameras, acrylic painting, teakwood
Art for sale : kiwi@island6.org
“Disco Depression” (迪斯科大萧条)
You know we’re as good as dead you and me. I knew when I started, although I’m not really sure you did. People don’t make it out alive anyhow, they’re just people. One thing we can count on is that they’ll sure talk us up and pick the hottest actors to portray this love affair thing we’re cooking-up together. Little kids will run around with toy guns and argue over which of them gets to play me or you. They’ll stare at each other with squinted summer faces and compare their facial features to ours. And they’ll never be the same, not even close, because even though we’re kids too we’re a different kind. The kind that know better but have smooth enough skin to convince the world we didn’t.
102*102cm
LCD screen, acrylic painting, paper collage, teakwood
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“When The Flamingo Dreams” (当火烈鸟做梦时)
I got colors in my head, man, a lucid dream of dream addicts chasing the life of others. At the place where we are, there is no space to stretch and the time is too short to live. Isn’t that what you want? Just go, it’s mating time, I’ll wait. This time, the cage we live in seems infinite. I can’t get out. It’s autumn, your monochrome eyes are getting less and less bright, but wait, is what you are chasing not the one you could never live? I’ve got all the things you left behind, the great plan, the fallen heroes, and I’ve got her, somewhere here, where you’ve never searched. Keep moving, because we are reborn each and every minute. You have never been and you will never be, yet you seem the same to me. I got idea I want to tell you, but I never know if I’m left behind or I’ve already outrun the ones that forgot how to wake.
60*47cm
RGB LED display, sand & resin coating, teakwood
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“Rum Pump Pump” (叮叮咚)
The girl with the enamel eyes sits motionless on a balcony surrounded by plum blossoms and peonies. From time to time her head is buried in a small book. Other days, she stares at passersby making the daily commute, delivery drivers, and the occasional dog walker. Her lovely gaze relentlessly searches for a mate, her other half. The beautiful doll who’s always dreaming of a pas de deux. Below on the sidewalk I observe her, from time to time. But our eyes never meet! In a series of unfortunate events and completely unbeknownst to our darling dolly I find myself completely and utterly heartbroken. Alas my friends, don’t be alarmed for this is no reason to act somber. Not at all! True love stories never have endings! I will continue to survey the skies for those enchanting brown eyes like Claudius Ptolemy searched for the sun, planets, and stars. You may call it madness, I call it love!
39*71cm
RGB LED display, polarized tempered glass, teakwood
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“Tread Dread” (踩踏恐惧)
I’ve been at this a long time. Too long. Almost 1/3 of my life on these tired streets—mostly over by old Route Dupleix (An Fu Lu today) and Avenue Joffre (Huaihai Middle Road). I guess the variety of what I see makes it more bearable, allows for a suspension of disbelief about what I really do. And then there’s my partner in crime here. When it comes down to the nuts and bolts of it all, I’m glad I chose this path. It could be worse. Drivers in Shanghai are loose, but it’s nothing compared to Beijing. Let’s put it this way: if Shanghai is Warhol’s Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster), then Beijing is his Orange Car Crash Fourteen Times. Absolutely brutal. I stay safe though, making liberal use of my headlights and my “Shanghai hello” (a honk and the, uh, one-finger wave), especially when I’m on the third-level gaojia. Take a good long look. Most people don’t see my frontside for long. I give a hello, and then a quick goodbye with a trail of smoke and the smell of burnt rubber left in the air. I leave behind only my tread dread, my haze craze.
52*52cm
TFT display, acrylic painting, paper collage, teakwood
Art for sale : kiwi@island6.org
“Chapi Chapo” (肖皮查波)
Where did all the people go? How often do you get an entire beach to yourself? My oh my, oo lala. What do you do when your world is a playground, open to all possibility? Why, you make your dreams come true of course! It’s just that sometimes your dreams are simple, like lounging around in a bathing suit while warm air breezes off the water and around your body. Simple isn’t always easy though. Example: Robert Rauschenberg’s “Erased de Kooning Drawing”, an artwork through which Rauschenberg completely erased one of de Kooning’s original drawings, framed it, and presented it as his own work. Simple? Yes. Easy? For no one. de Kooning liked his drawing; Rauschenberg burned through 15 erasers and one month to get the job done. The point here is that for security (and especially for security through freedom) sacrifices must be made. Sartre would say that freedom is necessary, that it is just another word for existence. But he would also agree that it is damning, carrying with it responsibilities for all the world. When Sartre gets into your head, playing on the beach feels less like a holiday and more like possibilities being consumed.
120*120cm
RGB LED display, sand & resin coating, teakwood
Art for sale : kiwi@island6.org
“Anywhere You Meet A Horizon” (划过地平线)
Anywhere you might meet a horizon say hello to it! Maybe raise a flag so that others can see it from beyond the curve that separates your small patch of earth from so many others. In every direction you look and see a horizon line you can wonder if there might be someone the perfect distance away in that direction that your horizon line is theirs, just from the opposite side. The strangest thing about the horizon all around you is it stays the same distance away. You’ll move around your whole life in the same approximate bubble of visible land, never knowing for certain what’s on the other side of any particular one. Could be true love or disaster, fame or fiery death. Maybe someone who would’ve been your best friend is just beyond where you can see, lazily floating and paddling around, waiting for you to come watch and then introduce yourself. Maybe you can explain why people do what they do all around the world and throughout all of time, they really just want to know what’s over the next hill.
192.8*72.7cm
RGB LED display, Giclée print face-mounted on plexiglass, stainless steel
Art for sale : kiwi@island6.org
“Fabulous Vegas-cum-Pachinko Neon” (神话般的维加斯帕金科氖灯)
When a young Josh Baskin fed a coin into an usual antique arcade machine and made a wish to “be big”, he had no idea what was about to happen. Tom Hanks’ character in Big got everything he asked for thanks to Zoltar the fortune teller that day and the rest is history. That movie was made in 1988 and is just one example of a life-changing moment. Today, people all over the world experience those split seconds in their own ways. You could meet the man or woman of your dreams later this afternoon. Or have an important bit of news delivered tomorrow morning that you weren’t expecting. You could simply leave the house two minutes later one day and experience a whole different outcome than if you’d have left on time. It’s all a gamble. One big throw of the dice. While a pachinko game in Japan won’t change your life, they are certainly just as popular and attractive as the slot machines in Las Vegas or Macau. The mechanical devices are just as hypnotic as what the West would call a ‘fruit machine’ and offer as much escapism to the punter. They are also highly customizable allowing for owners and aficionados to express their creativity. The aim of the game is to capture as many balls as possible, which can then be exchanged for prizes so there’s no chance of getting rich from a pachinko. But don’t hate the player, hit the jackpot. You only get one life, it’s your chance to be big like Baskin. Let it all slot into place.
120*120cm
RGB LED display, acrylic painting on Plexiglass, teak wood
Art for sale : kiwi@island6.org
“Ping Ping An An” (平平安安)
“Architecture should speak of its time and place but yearn for timelessness.” – Frank Gehry
The Queen of the Orient, Paris of the East, The City of Shen (申城), our dear Shanghai goes by many eclectic names. No matter what you call it, the city on the sea attracts a certain type of energy that has the power to move you deeply. No matter where you come from, this is home. Here you’re safe and sound from whatever you were running from. Now it’s just living. And it’s easy in a scene where old meets new at every corner. Hungarian-Slovak architect László Hudec, commonly known as Shanghai’s master builder, designed over 60 buildings in the thirty years he lived here. His creativity resulted in many of the art deco architecture that still stands to this day. Hudec’s masterpiece was the tallest building in the metropolis, until the 1980s, the twenty-two story Park Hotel Shanghai on Nanjing Road. A walk down the bund might as well be a walk through time. Western-style buildings, Neoclassical to Beaux-Arts to Gothic to Baroque, sky high edifices, traditional Shikumen lane houses, It’s all here. All you could ever ask for just a few blocks near Bao Ren Long (保仁弄). Although some say the street is already removed, the feelings evoked when walking past remain.
99.5*75.5cm
Gongbi painting (工笔) on Hahnemühle watercolor paper, teakwood
Art for sale : kiwi@island6.org
“Seize The Means Of Pollination” (抓住授粉的方法)
Graffiti. When we strip the layers of painted meaning down to the brick, what are we left with? What were those early experimenters in 1983 New York City trying to express? The underground nature of the medium lends itself to an energetic feeling of wild reformation, of a mode that subverts not only the artworld, but those other forces of colonization, greed, and evil present in all corners of discourse. Were the imaginative needs of those artists so different from those of their forefathers? Is the Peranakan pattern on this vase any less graffiti than what’s painted onto the wall across the street? Maybe it boils down to a difference in the how rather than the what, a difference of expression rather than one of content. We’ve heard well-dressed people discuss in hushed yet excited tones heavy with the smell of expensive champagne that graffiti is a return to something primitive, to a preliterate time of big Gods and little gods, that it’s a “good investment…”. And so far, they’ve been right, but only because with a snap of their fingers and a clap of their hands, they’ve decided this is how it would be.
66*47cm
RGB LED display, acrylic painting, sound sensor, teak wood
Art for sale : kiwi@island6.org
“21st Century Romance” (21世纪罗曼史)
We didn’t have much. A beat up 1996 Nissan Sentra. A suitcase full of dirty clothes. Every time we opened the car door, an overflow of fast-food wrappers and cups. Bottles and cans clanking noisily as if punctuating our lifestyle. We’d cruise from this motel to that. From that restaurant to this. At least we had each other. An emotional roller coaster, and we’d ridden the length of it as one. I looked at my companion, and brushed her gently with the back of my fingers. We had just arrived. I reached down to lift her top up. I booted her up. Launched the scripts. Every keystroke like a brush on a canvas—It was beautiful the way we worked together. We perused every available connection sniffing for credit card numbers, personal identification, and anything we could use to make a buck. No matter how little or how much we found, we had each other. Great rooms, best rates, I’m not interested. Wifi, that’s the ticket.
52*52cm
RGB LED display, acrylic painting on Plexiglass, teak wood
Art for sale : kiwi@island6.org
“Pinwheel” (风车)
Endless debates on whether color or drawing is more important within painting were definitive in the history of art ever since the Renaissance. According to the Venetian traditions, the more sensual “colore” was the true nature of mosaics, frescoes and oil painting. On the contrary, Florentine Renaissance artists believed in the superiority of “disegno” or drawing as being rational and scientific in its approach to perspective and design of composition. This opposition was that of nature and intellect, observation and invention. Yet, the two elements couldn’t exist without each other… thought the Renaissance master, until somebody came and got rid of drawing, this skeleton of painting to see the flesh of paint live free like the rainbow of cosmic gas in the vacuum of space. The scientific approach was finally passed on to the observers of nature when the impressionists started questioning what the eyes can see. They saw the whole spectrum of colors of Goethe’s color wheel as building blocks of vision and painting. It’s only one step away from abstraction. But the question here is, having let design go, when do we say good bye to the illusion of color?
39*39cm
RGB LED display, one-way glass, teakwood
Art for sale : kiwi@island6.org
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