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With strong obsession in the materiality of the most mundane things, this “painting” is made through treating, arranging, and layering of paper. Each slice of paper is meticulously manipulated with fire and water, two opposite forces in nature. The work itself is “painted” by the harmonisation of the two natural elements, and highlights the coexistence between extreme simplicity and obsessiveness.
2,500 pieces of burned paper on board, 4*4feet (120*120cm).
The obsession of buring in this work is not limited to the action, but also to its visual potential and the poetic meaning such an action implies. The meaning of burning in many Asian cultures is not only a ritual activity but...
Repetition dominates the process of making these pieces: the repetition of dripping water drops onto paper, burning the paper with fire, watching the fire tracing the water marks, and seeing the water evaporating into the air.
The paper, collectively layered onto a surface, evolves into a new life, presenting themselves as a combination of the chaotic burn marks and the obsessive control of the artist – a metaphor for the rawness of nature and the orderliness of the mind, whilst these two qualities co-exist.
Each dot is made by a water drop on paper and burning the paper with fire, which dissolves the dry parts and traces around the wet spot, leaving charred edges and sometimes smoke stains. Thousands of dots are then layered to make a paintless "painting". The process of...
