Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: [English] What I Adorned records a precarious, ornate period of my artistic journey. It serves as a painful mirror of how the desire for external recognition can deteriorate into decorative excess. The intricate, densely layered forms were accumulated to captivate the viewer or validate ambition. Yet, I encountered a paradox:…
Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: [English] This work is part of an ongoing exploration of contemplation, memory, and inner transformation through ink and traditional Korean materials on Hanji. The intertwined lines and knots represent accumulated thoughts, emotions, and experiences that remain within us. Through the repetitive process of drawing and layering, I transform invisible states…
Artwork Description: [English] This piece encourages the viewer to reflect how, on a daily basis, we use our given skills and talent in unintentional artistic endeavour. Its intention and aim is to encourage us to re-evaluate what is often experienced as mundane or automatic in the execution of seemingly non-artistic tasks. These undertakings, whilst often…
Artwork Description: his ink-and-watercolor painting blends traditional Chinese landscape brushwork with modern figurative painting language. Viewed from behind, a lady in a slim cheongsam holds a vintage oil-paper parasol and strolls gently beside misty river water in light drizzle. Willow branches hang down softly in the hazy rain, raindrops ripple across the water surface, and…
Artwork Description: This close-up watercolor merges traditional Chinese fine brushwork and modern painting methods to depict a tranquil Old Shanghai lady with her eyes gently closed. Decorated with pearl tassels, jade bracelet and emerald earrings, the figure wears a classic cheongsam with golden cloud embroidery. The work freezes an intimate quiet moment, showcasing the introverted…
Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: In a courtyard in the Inner Palace of the Forbidden City a door is firmly closed, symbolising the personal boundary, the internal world, privacy and protection. Home to the imperial concubines, like the number three, the door represents both life and creation, but also separation, exclusion, secrecy and imprisonment. Sān…
Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: In the private quarters of the imperial family in the Inner Palace of the Forbidden City a door lies ajar in the shadows, whilst an ancient tree is bathed in sunlight. The door, the shadows and the number two reflect the dual nature of life, and its ambiguity: the door…
Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: A view of a distant open door in the Inner Palace of the Forbidden City, the private quarters of the Imperial family, it’s concubines and servants. An open door and the number one signify new beginnings and opportunity but also denote loneliness and isolation. For members of the imperial household…
Artwork Description: Stylograph is a drawing created through the use of ink applied with a stylographic pen (stylo), a term that designates both the technique and the resulting artwork. Stylograph emerges as a technique, from past architectural drawing practice — precise and organized, detail-oriented, geometric patterns and restrained application of color — by exploring the…
Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: Opera realizzata a quattro mani. La duplice scelta stilistica vincola l’opera in un paradosso comunicativo: i temi numerosi e complessi si annullano a vicenda conferendo un risultato di pura medialità stilistica, tipica della tradizione della ricerca figurativa del divino. La ricerca volumetrica dell’architettura e della scultura egizia viene citata (e…
