Gender Construct and Creation Myth (with video)

I am currently working on a public program with Para Site. It is one of the video highlight tours of the current exhibition Garden of Six Seasons. Below is my original script writing and the video(updated 29/8), talking about Citra Sasmita's Work 'The Habor of Restless Spirits' in terms of mythology, narratives of history and…

Dear D: The Evolution of Love Letters

(The Chinese version was published on Stand News https://thestandnews.com/art/%E8%A6%AA%E6%84%9B%E7%9A%84d-%E6%83%85%E6%9B%B8%E6%BC%94%E5%8C%96%E8%AB%96/#.XBn1XXP3OXY.facebook) In the book Love Letters: 2000 Years of Romance, Andrea Clarke suggested “Love letters are an expression of intimacy; their words allow us insight into the private relationships of people down the ages.” Here I am, looking at the private thoughts of an anonymous admirer on…

A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf

This is an essay talking about women and fiction based on Virginia Woolf's lecture in 1928. It shows me a deep insight of the struggles and invisible cages that professional women were facing through the history. I am glad that I am in a generation which awareness on sexual equality is raised, and though the…

A Monster Calls

A Monster Calls is a play based on the novel by Patrick Ness. It talks about how a 13 years old boy Conor went through from avoiding the truth his mum is dying from cancer to finally have the courage to let her go. Through out the story, there is an ancient walking yew tree…

Reading Dung Kai-cheung: Invention and Authenticity

It is hard to find a traditional Chinese book to read in London. I complained to my mum and she mailed me a book from my bookshelf in Hong Kong. It was written by Hong Kong writer Dung Kai-cheung, including articles from 1997 to 2010 that shared his views on literature and experience on writing.…

Slumber is a Journey to the Eternal Return

All pieces in my graduation series "Chronicle of the Woods" are based on the photos I took in Richmond Park. After the tutorial with Matthew Krishanu, he told me that if I want to make big works, I should do the testing on big canvas directly instead of doing it on small pieces. I think I…

Remake of Metamorphosis

This re-creation of "Metamorphosis" is one of the final piece of my degree show. I found it's interesting to compare the size and materials of two piece together. "Metamorphosis" combines of accidents. I know I can't recreate. Instead I see this as another edition of the original one.  

Remaking of Lava Tree

I am going to remake the Lava Tree (previous post) on a big canvas. I didn't prime the canvas with pumice gel this time and tends to create effect with acrylic. I tested the acrylic effect on small canvas (left) and hope to do the same on the big one. I faced two main problem…

[Reading Group] A Lively Death

‘A Lively Death’: Contemporary Artistic Conversations with the Still Life Tradition by Isabel Seligman This article mentioned a vegetable-hybrid painting by Glenn Brown, this raised my interest as vegetable-hybrid is the subject matter of my work. In the earlier part of the article, it talks about how still life evolved from the landscape painting. The…

[Reading Group] The Greenhouse Effect, Ralph Rugoff

What I learnt from this essay is the fiction narrate and invention of nature. It talks about "nature" is a cultural invention, it confused us between nature and artifice. This strengthen my knowledge with the stand of Susan Stewart's invention of narrative and Mark Dion's invention of nature. The most interesting part is that in the…