The way of heaven is to benefit without harming.
Japanese pigment, sand, soil, stone, wood, Tangka pigment, traditional Chinese mineral pigments, metal particles (copper sulfate, copper chloride, sodium dichromate, iron(III) oxide, sodium dihydrogen phosphate), oil paint, charcoal, acrylics;
3000 x 3000 mm, 2018
The shape of a social person who has been cut off some limbs. This is also the shape of bricks, which is most suitable as raw materials to build some “houses”.
A perfect Utopian shape, beautiful and impractical. People can only keep fumbling close on this side but never seem to be able to reach there, because if they don‘t pay attention, it will magically turn completely to the other side.
At present, the class shape of my society – the few elites on the top – determine the fate of the majority of people who are trampled on by them.
A water body records itself in what it deposits.
Sediment Remembers Water begins from the belief that a water body records itself in what it deposits. I gather only small amounts of mud from canals in the Netherlands and work it into mixed-media panels. Once dried and bound, the sediment forms a granular skin that cracks, absorbs pigment and resists control. I read these surfaces as archives of movement, weather, maintenance, pollution, and encounters between human and more-than-human life. Bodies, eggs, stones, roots and faces appear within this unstable ground. At close range, some panels retain a faint mineral and earthy smell of the canal bed.
I’m a synesthesia patient and can see reincarnations. I have many different perspectives. This is the world as I see it.
Sand, soil, stone, wood, Tangka pigment, traditionalChinese mineral pigments, metal particles (coppersulfate, copper chloride, sodium dichromate, iron(III)oxide, sodium dihydrogen phosphate), oil paint,charcoal, acrylics, Japanese pigment,
1000 x 1200 mm, 2018
We ourselves are the aggregates of karma.
