Magazine Project

The magazine project is the extension of photography project that is exploring the interesting and challenging way of looking, but rather than recording the past time, I try to add another medium - oil painting to intrude the photography and words of one magazine, thus making original photographs produce different possibilities of meaning by viewers' curiosity.  To some extent, the concept of John Stezaker is similar with this project, but by different way to give the original pictures new meanings.  Unlike Stezaker, his work is combined two pictures to create a new picture, my work is combined two different mediums – picture and oil painting, opening up new characters, relationships and meanings.  What’s more, I think, probably his work more relates to the old time but mine is concentrated to different uncertain possibilities of the future.   But the same thing of us is that we try to intrude the photograph to produce new meaning by different ways.  Just as he mentioned, ‘You can only get a feeling of the inviolable purity and sanctity of the emulsion of a photograph by violating it.’  In this project I think I am a conceptual structralist, try to say to the viewers ‘this is not that’ in terms of the original pictures and words of the magazine, thus making the overpaintings thought-provoking, aesthetically pleasing and utterly desirable.