Selected series
In the age of Internet connectivity and mass media, people are bombarded with messages and can easily slip into consuming them without sorting and digesting them. I am interested in involving my audience, stimulating them to break out of the passive mode of receiving information and not processing it.
My fine art work does not give answers but offers a place for questioning and for slowing down of the viewers’ hurried lives. The pieces allow for active participation. A dialog occurs, a two-way relationship, a conversation, an exchange of ideas between the image and the viewer. The viewer’s own experiences are interpreted into an individual understanding of the image. The image then derives its meaning from its onlooker and the circumstances it is viewed under. I believe that the thinking, feeling and meditation provoked by my pieces is essential in today’s instant society that gives solutions and answers before one even gets a chance to ask questions.
Incisions of the Subconscious focus on the process of aging and mortality by tracing age lines that the author finds in the cracks and crevices of natural and man-made objects. Dry landscapes, dusty stones and rusty objects are transfo
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Concerto for brush and hand series Being a conceptual and visual extension of Blind Books, the pieces capture a rhythm with which they were created. The vertical stripes divide the picture into separate entities with lives of their own
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Blind Books, derived from the shape of window blinds, represent the fragmented information one is presented with in everyday life. While each page spread works visually on its own, one is aware that these pages form a larger picture.
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Eye Spy explores the privacy of its onlookers. Once the viewer approaches the blind, he or she is aware of round darker objects set in a grid-like pattern. One might even deduce these are eyes with black iris looking back. On closer ex
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How I see You my Hong Kong This blind is a flower-shaped view-finder through which the viewer can experience the world around. In the realm of the exhibition it was created for, the viewers could see each other filtered through the bli
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I had a dream recently. I was walking somewhere in Shatin. How I knew this is beyond the point, I cannot explain it now. Everything was still as if the time stopped. The buildings, tall and slim were towering in the background. All the
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A blind, whether commercially produced or hand-made, becomes a transitional device at once separating and at once filtering what lies beyond. Seen on the wall, the blinds are recognized as images. However placed in space, they become o
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