Stadium 2010

The experiential nature and time-lapse compositions in Chinese scrolls make perfect sense to me. They reveal movement and at the same time, evade dual logic for more complex resolutions. My paintings and collages reflect how the shifting perspectives and mobile spaces in scrolls revisit space shaped by global culture and virtual reality.

Horizon Fragment

Pouring paint, projecting images from scrolls, practicing the Chinese idiom plum blossom and mixing sketchbooks drawings into photocopied collages becomes ways to splice and rework space. Spending long durations of time in a place ensures the absorption of its particular palette and characteristics into my work. Yet, I also experience landscape as “found,” as much within photojournalism or history as a direct encounter. Observing place as a combination of marks, like a Chinese idiom, I begin to envision landscape like wallpaper, as a series of images and spaces that sharpen focus and then dematerialize. To this pre-existing field of vacillating perception, I add a matrix of trees, pavilions, explosions, webs and stripes to forge a hybrid space from figments of others.

1- Stadium, 2010, acrylic and collage on linen,
51×63 inches

2- Horizon Fragment, 2010, acrylic on linen,
38×47 inches

3- Volley, 2010, acrylic on linen, 24×24 inches

Volley