AT INTERSECTIONS IS THE EMPTINESS 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Exploring the context of emptiness in painting

 

The idea of emptiness can be expanded to explore many possibilities in painting. In the first series the concept of emptiness, as illustrated above, is projected in the painting process. This concept of how the mind works in relation to time is applied into the painting process. During the process I worked back and forth between visual perception and fantasy, like between past and future, weaving an opened meaning picture of the wholeness. The picture of the wholeness is full of possibilities, a visual form of “inter-beings”.

 

In parallel to the duality of mind, I explore how dualities can be spoken through languages in painting, for instance, through object and abstraction, drawing and painting, and materiality of paint and immateriality. To leave the canvas itself as a part of the picture and to play with thickness of colour substance is a way of projecting two extreme poles. I have found that, working back and forth between looking and fantasizing allowed me to flow with spontaneous decisions and freshness while painting. At the beginning, I had neither a plan nor sketches nor a complete picture in my mind. There was no preparations or pre- sketched composition. I only had to trust the process and be truthful to my natural flows with perception and fantasy. Sketching became happening all along the process. Sketching, drawing, and painting take place interactively in the same present time to compose possibility-full pictures. During the process, I see the canvas itself as the state of Nothingness, and the materiality of colours as Fullness. Between looking and fantasizing all possible languages slowly interrelate at the intersection.