๐๐ฅ๐ข ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ช๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ฉ ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ฃ ๐๐ฑ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ซ๐ข๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐๐ซ๐ก ๐๐ฏ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฏ: ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฐ๐ ๐ข๐ซ๐ก๐ฆ๐ซ๐ค ๐๐ซ๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ค๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ฉ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ซ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ซ ๐ฑ๐ฅ๐ข ℑ๐ซ๐ฑ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐๐ฉ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ถ
*โโงใ.เผ๐๐ฑ๐ช๐ท๐ฝ๐ช๐ต ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ทเผ.๏ฝกโงโ*
Within my practice, I fantasize and actualize armor and spatial elements that engage the isolation of ontological in-betweenness as the other, a separate realm of existence. As a multimedia artist, experimentation and process encapsulate core emotive qualities in my life. My practice plays with dimension-building for the interstitial body while physicalizing the subconscious as a reclaimed netherworld. Through materializing the metaphysical, I unveil the odyssey of my unconscious self and examine the ornamentation of the Oriental as protection for existing as duality. As an Asian-American artist, I feel as though my experience navigating the world alongside ingrained ideas of White idealization coincides with the subconscious process in my practice. My work attempts to physicalize this space as a dreamscape to exemplify the romanticized and obscured subconscious that protects, yet is seductively treacherous. While contemplating this concept, I’ve realized this realm also correlates with the feeling of nostalgia for innocence, where socio-political attributes of life were obscured. Visual references to Gothic architecture, Euro-mythological motif, and techno-organic design epitomizes the usage of Euro-centric ideals as an attempt to shield oneself from otherness. While themes of nostalgic dream-like conception float in the atmosphere of the installations and sculptural work. Simultaneously, using ornamentation to reclaim the Yellow Woman’s experience and transcend being an ornament for White desire.
photo by jinny lee
photo by jinny lee
photo by jinny lee