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Foreigner Jigsaw Artwork Series
Foreigner Jigsaw Artwork Series
Beijing, China
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Foreigner Jigsaw Artwork Series
Beijing, China
The title “The foreigner” comes from my feelings of my
first year as an architect and artist in Beijing. I have always “labeled”
myself as an architect and designer but through a chance encounter with
Affordable Art Beijing and thanks to the wonderful organization of their show I
was able to sell one of my paintings. I have painted most of my life but never
thought about commercializing my art. I mostly paint because of geometry
manipulation and form study analysis related to my interior, furniture and
architectural work and with this in mind, I wish to convey a sense of an
architect’s perspective in conceiving a painting through his alienation within
the Beijing artistic circle.
Since I am from an architectural rather than an artistic
background, I wanted to indulge into a painting that blurs slightly into the
threshold of sculpture as we are prone to work in a 3 dimensional perspective.
Ever since I was a student in England I have always been taught by a movement called
“Deconstructivism”. This is a philosophy that manipulates geometry and departs
from the traditional modernistic approach of form follows function and
symmetrical aesthetic. The deconstructivist celebrates form as a decorative
component in the architectural language and utilize non-linear approach in
conceiving any kind of design. With this in mind I started the quest of
constructing a painting that not only deconstruct its content, but as well
deconstructing its surroundings. Many of the colors and texture found in this
collection are of things I see and feel in Beijing. Flowers blossoming in
spring, the heavy snow that made me slip and fall many times, the dust and
dirty I step on, the blue sky I smile upon, the sadness or happiness I feel
through this year; all of them are express within these 5 paintings through
very abstracted patterns that perhaps only I can fully comprehend but I also
wish any onlooker can interpret it in his/her own personal way. I believe art
has to mean a variety of things to different people and the beauty of any
creation is the multitude of interpretation that beholds its physical form; and
us artist are merely a vessel for this realization.
The lines within the painting represents my struggle in
finding the focus on my life, not just this year in Beijing, but as a general
theme of contradiction and convolution after my existence of 38 years. The shape
of the paintings is my final layer of deconstructivism and perhaps the most profound.
All 5 paintings are of very different form and they can be connected, split up,
tilted, elongate in any way the viewer pleases. The viewer is asked in this
instant to continue the role of the artist and not merely the spectator. It is
a painting that blurs slightly into sculpture and performance art. The lines on
these paintings can be joined or disjointed as I believe although they
represent my path of life, it can also be yours and I am certain we are so
different in our perspective and fate. The room for these pieces will be
deconstructed once they are placed and the role of the artist is passed onto
you. I hope these pieces can question your life as well as enrich yours with
mine and we can both attain a foreign perspective on each other.
first year as an architect and artist in Beijing. I have always “labeled”
myself as an architect and designer but through a chance encounter with
Affordable Art Beijing and thanks to the wonderful organization of their show I
was able to sell one of my paintings. I have painted most of my life but never
thought about commercializing my art. I mostly paint because of geometry
manipulation and form study analysis related to my interior, furniture and
architectural work and with this in mind, I wish to convey a sense of an
architect’s perspective in conceiving a painting through his alienation within
the Beijing artistic circle.
Since I am from an architectural rather than an artistic
background, I wanted to indulge into a painting that blurs slightly into the
threshold of sculpture as we are prone to work in a 3 dimensional perspective.
Ever since I was a student in England I have always been taught by a movement called
“Deconstructivism”. This is a philosophy that manipulates geometry and departs
from the traditional modernistic approach of form follows function and
symmetrical aesthetic. The deconstructivist celebrates form as a decorative
component in the architectural language and utilize non-linear approach in
conceiving any kind of design. With this in mind I started the quest of
constructing a painting that not only deconstruct its content, but as well
deconstructing its surroundings. Many of the colors and texture found in this
collection are of things I see and feel in Beijing. Flowers blossoming in
spring, the heavy snow that made me slip and fall many times, the dust and
dirty I step on, the blue sky I smile upon, the sadness or happiness I feel
through this year; all of them are express within these 5 paintings through
very abstracted patterns that perhaps only I can fully comprehend but I also
wish any onlooker can interpret it in his/her own personal way. I believe art
has to mean a variety of things to different people and the beauty of any
creation is the multitude of interpretation that beholds its physical form; and
us artist are merely a vessel for this realization.
The lines within the painting represents my struggle in
finding the focus on my life, not just this year in Beijing, but as a general
theme of contradiction and convolution after my existence of 38 years. The shape
of the paintings is my final layer of deconstructivism and perhaps the most profound.
All 5 paintings are of very different form and they can be connected, split up,
tilted, elongate in any way the viewer pleases. The viewer is asked in this
instant to continue the role of the artist and not merely the spectator. It is
a painting that blurs slightly into sculpture and performance art. The lines on
these paintings can be joined or disjointed as I believe although they
represent my path of life, it can also be yours and I am certain we are so
different in our perspective and fate. The room for these pieces will be
deconstructed once they are placed and the role of the artist is passed onto
you. I hope these pieces can question your life as well as enrich yours with
mine and we can both attain a foreign perspective on each other.
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