I tried to use
different random or organized figures with twisted blue oil brushes to intrude
the photographs by organizing some positive and negative shapes to cover the
main objects of them, and meanwhile change the original meanings. Photograph and oil color painting are
both the medium and the subject of the work, giving not a picture of creative
meaning, but some uncertainty versions of meaning.
The meaning of the
photography collection is collaborated between viewer and me, which is unclear or even non-existent, but waiting for viewer to find
out, or waiting for something to happen that might never happen.
In other words, it is
pure potentiality and the uncertainty of the future.
the title of every
piece of the collection is very important for viewer, which is the implication
of covered objects, and thus leaving them boundless fantasy.
The collection also
expresses the comparison between the photograph and oil painting. The vividness
of artificial brush is contrary to the flatness of photograph.
The intruding blue
brush, as a medium of painting, as well as a medium of communication, connects
the original meaning and new meaning of different possibilities that is created
by viewer. On the other hand, the photograph and the brush
of oil painting reflect the stillness and the movement, in which I create some
different possibilities, I think, which is the another reality.
In which, the viewer is the leading role of creating different unsettled
stories.
After doing the photography project, I want
to use the color of blue to be my personal symbol, in other words, the blue oil
color is like my personal logo.
Then I did my recent project, about ‘the
value of discarded things’
This project tries to evolve, surprise and question the audience and the
art world in this commercial society.
to reflect the deliberate confusions between art and commerce
Well, I'm quite interested in properly defining which things are
assigned value.
To a large extent this project is about examining concepts of “value” in
our culture and re-investing discarded, old, vintage things with meaning and
use.
I’m trying to point viewers’ attention to specific objects and events in
life that risk being overlooked as being too quotidian or too common.
I also think art making is less about the invention or construction of
new things, but more about the close paying attention to existing things.
The abandoned things made by any human beings have witnessed the pass of
time. Giving these wasted old
things a new life is a kind of return, as well as a kind of expectation to the
nice time of the future.
Collect many discarded thing
Buy cheap stuff or vintage
stuff
Blue oil painting to cover part or whole of these stuff
On the other hand
Make a joke with customers by the way of special
sale set up a shop to sale
these redesigned products
Price with much higher price than the original’s
mock
blindly run after high-priced, luxury products
bing about a kind of introspection of the real value of packaged
products
make viewers think about
What is the real value of packaged products?
How do we value things?
