2017
ink on acrylic sheets
Disagreeing the trend to agree artist’s practice.
Nowadays it seems like a lot of people are designing art for the sake of ART; and that it's necessary to develop a theory and meaning behind their works. By disagreeing this kind of “meaning making practices” of creating art, I want to legitimize my own practice as a way of art making. I want to experiment with the process of making, create meaning in my life rather than forcing a meaningful work that does not represent who I am.
Limiting myself as the creator to exists only at the moment of the process. Using black permanent marker on black acrylic sheets limits the room for error while adding difficulty to see during the process. The unforgiveness nature of the two materials become a performance setting: allowing the materials, the motions, and the strokes to be separated from what’s intend and what the result should be. The boldness of the permanent marker assures my strokes are final and are to be taking seriously. I want to visually transfer my unconscious instinct onto the canvas and project them back to the location. The artworks in Disagreeing to agree/ Don’t fuck it up are experimentally arranged to create a non-hierarchical position that reflects my unconscious mind. Intend for the audience to move around the exhibit space to reposition their perspective, just like a camera trying to focus on a different subject. This body of work is a form of communication of me through modified phrases, quotes, idioms based on my experiences. In this series of artwork, I explore both in English and Chinese expressions during the process of making, while materializing my unconscious practice into meaningful works.