PORTFOLIO
AWAKENING
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ARTLESSNESS
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GLACIAL RETREAT
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A SUBCONSCIOUS CREATION
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WILDFIRES, UNTAMABLE FLAMES
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IDENTITY
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ARTIST STATEMENT
My paintings are an amalgam to the essential questions of life, "Who am I? Why am I here? What is this life about? How can I contribute to this world?" They are also a tribute to my cultural upbringing and emotional crosscurrents of my life. I have been an artist from a young age and some of my earliest mamories recall creating watercolor and charcoal drawing of my family, the precursor to my figurative work today. My figurative art retains strong reference to the reality of my own life and thoughts, feelings and identity. However, my abstract art continue to hold more imaginary part of my life.
In 2014, I started working in an abstract expressionist style. I give permission to my creative self, and my paintings develop in their own way and materialize. The paint takes charge and I take a role of vessel. This is not without conscious thought or intention. It is indeed the consciousness itself. I am allowing the whatever I am attached to leave, especially the thought of "I", "me" or "mine." I go beyond ego, and let I AM which is consciousness itself, emerge. Through opening myself to the emerging consciousness, I bring awareness to "Who I AM", "Why I AM here" and "What is this life about?"
In my inner exploration, I have found that I deeply care about the state of the world that we all inhabit. Our world is facing the biggest environmental challenge has ever seen - that of Climate Change. Climate Change has already had observable effects on the environment. Climate Change is NOT a distant threat, it is happening now! My newest abstract expressionist painting series depicts the catastrophic impact on our planet that our leaders are not taking seriously.
In the end, all the intangible things transform in myself, into both my figurative and abstract artwork. When I paint or draw, I bathe my head in the unknown and explore the unexplored, beyond all common sense! I pursue life my own way. It is with this perception that I want to effect the quality of the viewer.
In 2014, I started working in an abstract expressionist style. I give permission to my creative self, and my paintings develop in their own way and materialize. The paint takes charge and I take a role of vessel. This is not without conscious thought or intention. It is indeed the consciousness itself. I am allowing the whatever I am attached to leave, especially the thought of "I", "me" or "mine." I go beyond ego, and let I AM which is consciousness itself, emerge. Through opening myself to the emerging consciousness, I bring awareness to "Who I AM", "Why I AM here" and "What is this life about?"
In my inner exploration, I have found that I deeply care about the state of the world that we all inhabit. Our world is facing the biggest environmental challenge has ever seen - that of Climate Change. Climate Change has already had observable effects on the environment. Climate Change is NOT a distant threat, it is happening now! My newest abstract expressionist painting series depicts the catastrophic impact on our planet that our leaders are not taking seriously.
In the end, all the intangible things transform in myself, into both my figurative and abstract artwork. When I paint or draw, I bathe my head in the unknown and explore the unexplored, beyond all common sense! I pursue life my own way. It is with this perception that I want to effect the quality of the viewer.