- Aside from Chinese and English, I work through abstraction,
a language I find to be
an act of performance that enduringly
performs.
Never static, abstraction propels an object into an ongoing state of motion—deconstructing recognition and reconstructing meaning—
upon all who engage.- It takes the operations of language into a spatial dimension,
differing in its confluence of an incontestable physicality
yet
contestable consensus.
I think about my work as objects and questions.
Objects are self-explanatory and autotelic, echoing the intuitive process by which they come into being. The motions of making is propelled by the tactility of a chosen material and informed by subterranean moods, thoughts, and feelings. The morphology that occurs is self-explanatory, as in, I cannot explain it better to you than you can to me.
Questions are exercises, the alter ego to objects. Rather than self-explanatory, it is wholly volitional. Questions arise from a curiosity, an absence of knowing, a contradiction, and a dire need to fill such voids. The work is made with a sea of questions in mind but is done when it is condensed into a few. The work is then full, brimming with curiosity yet totally absent of an answer, a ‘full void.’ Its purpose is to not remind you of all the answers you think you already possess but rather to give you questions you don’t yet have.
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