Waste

Land

Wasteland, 2022, Sculpture, 16 x 12 x 6 inches

I pull apart and interlace the figures into loose and overlapping subsidiary forms when dealing with painting on ceramic panels for the perception of volume and space. Individually, these forms are abstract, but together they suggest human forms. The abstraction is a metaphor for a state of mind that is unsettled. My investigation of man-made and natural changes in the environment through interaction with materials was driven by "living with troubles" through "pluralistic paths." Fire, the indexical mark of temperature, negotiates and reacts to the hybrid shape of semi-abstract body as landscape.

My work practices explore the materiality and process of photography, painting, sculpture, and other mixed media. I use the burnt painted wire mesh for the sculpture to form the structure, combined with wire and wire mesh with special burnt marks. My semi-abstract paintings and sculptures recognize and blend the human and the landscape form in conjunction with my references to merging traditional Chinese culture and Taoist thought. The layout of space and structural white space in my work is key to the coherence of the painting. A natural state is presented in the random twisting and dismantling of the body's shape.