Brave New World
watercolor on paper
2019 -
Through a story submitted by the participant, the artist paints a portrait of the participant as "embryos." The topic of the story revolves around “the moment of existence.” People tell stories about life and death, giving birth, existential crisis, memories that linger or even boredom.
The storyteller revisits his memories and emotions by representing the experience, as well as reorganizes and contemplates its tension and metaphor in his life. Rather than the storyteller’s embryo, it is the embryo which carries the time and space that the storyteller and the story inhabits. It is a retrospect documentation of human being as always “becoming.” The artist intends to visualize the link between an embryo - the earliest form of existence, and the human being, as well as discuss the transitionality and eternity of human beings as a life form.
Dah Dah Dah Dah Dah Dit Dah Dah Dah Dah (binary code 0 and 1 written in Morse code)
watercolor on paper
80 x 200 cm
2018
As a precursor to the project Brave New World, this painting initiates an inquiry into the “embryo” as a vessel of the universe — a capsule of the self, of matter, and of time. The title, rendered as “0” and “1” in Morse code, stretches in a quiet horizontal line across the centre, suggesting the binary pulse of creation and void, signal and silence.
Around it, egg-shaped abstract forms emerge and dissolve across shifting scales: cosmic eggs, alchemical spheres, planetary bodies, microorganisms, embryos. Each oscillates between the infinitesimal and the infinite. The anonymity of these forms mirrors the digital code itself — faceless yet generative — where the micro and the macro fold into one another. The terrain of fine algorithmic lines traces this connection, mapping an unseen logic that binds life and computation, origin and evolution.