My confusion and frustration with the world is expressed through my work. Instead of creating pieces of great significance my work is more about the absence of something. But this process gets confusing because even though I am making pieces about nothing, I am still making something physical, and so the piece becomes a contradiction of itself. My work is an extension of myself and reflects the confusion and contradictions within my own mind. I am nothing and at the same time I am something, only I don’t know what. Because I have no definitive position or point of view I have attempted to create one by drawing from those around me; by taking different parts of different philosophies to form one of my own. Not only do my artworks indicate the topics that concern me, but the material I use is also of great significance and integral to the concepts that I explore. Vinyl’s dual properties aid me in creating a world of illusion - it breaks up space, yet at the same time, it does not. Because of the transparent quality of vinyl, light permeates through it and visually reconnects the physically divided space. In addition, due to its appearance, vinyl often looks like glass and leaves an impression of fragility; when in fact it is very elastic and durable. Vinyl’s colorless nature can imply a meaningless agenda, and can create the semblance of an infinite spatial expansion. For instance, in Kitchen, the element closest to the viewers confirm their spatial relationship, yet because the vinyl can be seen through, they can also see all the elements beyond and the observation results in a sense of the space expanding beyond the elements. In my recent work “Untitled”(physical hologram), I tried to break out of reappearance of the objects. In this work, I gave more physical but more illusive image with something unknown and lead viewer can be interactive around it. Along the path, the shape inside becomes visible or invisible. The illusion that represents the plurality of all objects can stand in as a “simulacra” for the answer of truth. |
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