As an artist & educator, I enjoy working through art collaboration and self-designed art-making processes to obtain unique artistic lingo. It fuels my art, pushes me by understanding a subject matter from different perspectives, and helps me grow by challenging me through group participation, interaction, and interpretation.
In this series of work, I worked with two separate groups of students to create two-dimensional spaces made up of elements that resonate between the familiar and the unknown. By employing different perspectives, I try to encourage an experiential view of the mindscape, as the landscape that exists for the viewer in the physical world, where sightlines are constantly shifting.
I was inspired by the NGS art collection “Under construction” created by Leng Joon Wong. His painting has an immense power to draw viewers into his subject matter through the painted perspective line works. I intended to focus on the art-making processes rather than the final outcome, so we started on-site sketching with pencil and Chinese ink on paper materials as a seeding unit, followed by planting the group's mindscape by working with acrylic paint on canvases. These painted mindscapes had grown organically and become a rhythmic labyrinth to enter and travel through, wherein the viewer experiences his or her own personal associations.
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