Do you know that the current exhibition at the Bridge Gallery, "In-between" has a backstory?
It was a story about lines.
The "Line Journey" comprises 22 large black-ink paintings that show the lines as they depict, interpret and engage in pseudo-writing styles. I did this creative experimentation to understand how calligraphy and writing are achieved through the movement of the hands, and I realized the way the hand leads the way in order for the body, the line (as a visual element), and I, as an artist, all come together in order to produce markings that traverse depictive, interpretive and pseudo-writing imagery.
After doing these works, I feel that the lines that emerged have their own agency, in which the markings that were produced were not simply about me using my mind to be able to govern the line and its representational function. Rather, the lines are "matter" - they materially exist and their process of becoming are not separate from me. This became the motivation of why I consciously explored different unintelligible calligraphic styles and techniques in my works for "In-Between", in which I perceive the line beyond what it represents and instead see the value of its becoming in our interactions.
It was a story about lines.
The "Line Journey" comprises 22 large black-ink paintings that show the lines as they depict, interpret and engage in pseudo-writing styles. I did this creative experimentation to understand how calligraphy and writing are achieved through the movement of the hands, and I realized the way the hand leads the way in order for the body, the line (as a visual element), and I, as an artist, all come together in order to produce markings that traverse depictive, interpretive and pseudo-writing imagery.
After doing these works, I feel that the lines that emerged have their own agency, in which the markings that were produced were not simply about me using my mind to be able to govern the line and its representational function. Rather, the lines are "matter" - they materially exist and their process of becoming are not separate from me. This became the motivation of why I consciously explored different unintelligible calligraphic styles and techniques in my works for "In-Between", in which I perceive the line beyond what it represents and instead see the value of its becoming in our interactions.