2014 MICA Competitive Scholarship

MICA Landscape dream figure loop study Sunrise sunset explore black and white color scholarship collage Rembrant hand

Dreaming landscape

Oil Painting

32'' x 19''

I have been starting recording my dream since I was in high school after I learned the concept of "Lucid Dream". "Dream" is like root of a tree for me, and the real life like trunk, branch and leaves above the ground. This is one of my dream picture I dreamed when I was in high school. Since I have my dream sketch book, I can used my note to recall my memory and painted it for my later series.

Meditation cloud

Charcoal pencil

12'' x 8''

I did a meditation through drawing a cloud in void to discover my emotion and inner world. This is one of my works --- there are a lot of different type of clouds, some of them I made by line, blocks, dots and so on. All of them are a way to reveal my personlity and a symbol of my inner world.

Hand World "dragon and princes"

Black and white Photography

I was a little bit autism when I was a child. I use to play with my two hands at home. I imagined they have personality in themselves, like a creature. They have emotion to interact with world, happiness, sorrow, wrath and so on. This is one of my series work, "dragon and princes", a treasure keeper fighting with a knight princes.

Self animal identification

Collage by picutures

27'' x 20''

Loop Chinese Landscape

By ashes from burned art work

11'' x 7''

I drew this traditional Chinese landscape from ashes which burned from black and white oil landscape painting on gesso paper. I recorded the whole process of this painting works to reveal the meaning behind it.

The concept of "Loop" or "metempsychosis" is existing in everything, not only "life", but also art, science and religion. Everything (subject, concept, virtual, etc.) has a connection bewteen each other in many ways. If you want to "see" it by human sensation, you need time, talanet and effort. I made this art project to shorten the process of it and express in my own way how I see it. One thing transforms to another, our human mind just playing among it. Therefore, this is how it looks like right now, maybe after hundred years, this paper is going to turn it into dust and absort by a lovely sprout.

Time of Rembrant

Collage made by photoshop

I layered 15 Rembrant self portrait paintings from youth to old. I believe everything is changing among the time river streaming through us, either art master. I can feel that the great Rembrant want to record down the time, and remind himself how time change people. Therefore, I chosen some of his portraits to reveal how he looks like in the time. To see time like a picture not a moment.