The Swinging Painting Series inspired by the Chinese Yin and Yang
theory and my experience of moving around from countryside to town, town to
city, and country to country. I am using the circular (shape) or the sphere
(volume) as a symbol of unity, to be whole is also a way of unification, the
disciplinary and culture into one.
Additionally,
to express my experience of moving around, rolling over and over and the
feeling of restlessness and being unstable, all circular objects are restless
and unstable characteristics. Chinese traditions and beliefs are that the
circle is the sky and the land is square, ‘Earth’ was represented by a square
and ‘Heaven’ by a circle, it refers to ‘Tian Yuan Di Fang’ (Chinese simplified:
天圆地方).
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| London 2013 (I), ∅33 cm, Chinese ink and colour on rice paper, sold |
My work seeks to
document and explore the remaining landscape of the British Empire and
contemporary landscape, in the urban cities, for example London. My work has
always been autobiography, a visual exploration of my feeling and a reflection
of where my life is at any given moment.
Taking
these environment and turning them into the ‘bird’s eye view’ through drawing,
monoprint, painting and etching, looking at the pattern and layout of these
space. I wish to observe these environment from the different perspective
as a foreign immigrant by adding the image of myself swinging above these
environment, trying to fit the unexpected model or behaviour into our unwelcome
foreigner environment of everyday life and see how the environment response to
the external influence.
