Flowers and Porcelain
2024 Spring
The origin of my work stems from my fascination with objects and composition. I enjoy juxtaposing scenes/objects from paintings and photographing them. I hope painting is not just a two-dimensional canvas but can be viewed from a three-dimensional perspective. Later, in reading Wu Hong’s description of screens, I discovered a similar perspective — “not only considering a painting as an image drawn but also regarding it as the carrier of the image. It is the fusion and tension between these two aspects that make an artifact become a ‘painting’.”
In “Flowers and Porcelain,” the flowers in the painting are still fresh, while those in the still life photographs are already wilting. As for the porcelain — serving as both the carrier and contrast of the flowers — it stands quietly, without any traces of time, recording the passage of time, transcending the existence of time.