TABLE OF CONTENTS
Stop motion video of a 305 x 273 cm charcoal installation
Size: 3.17 min
Mixed media: Acrylic on collage over burlap and cardboard canvas
Size: 80.5 x 200 cm
Medium: 3 Photographs of the burning of a mixed media artwork (of oil, acrylic, and wax on newspaper collage)
Size: 51.5 x 37.5 cm
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 79 x 96.5 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 100 x 76 cm
Medium: A series of five graphite drawings
Size: 42 x 30 cm per drawing
Sculptural installation: Arrangement of ceramic sculpture + spray-painted branches oil on canvas painting + candlewick
Mirror installation: mirrors, duct tape, glue gun, black oil paint, plastic string
Size: 75 x 90 cm ground space
[1] Horarios Corpus
charcoal installation,
pursuing the transience
of corporal beauty.
[2] Janus-Faced Dragon
Mixed media piece made from corrugated cardboard, burlap, and acrylic. The dragon represents the fickleness of luck: dragons connote prosperity and good fortune, but also signify havoc and bad omen.
[3] Slow Burn
Some envision memory as a file cabinet; others conceive it as a biological hard drive. Both metaphors are wrong: memory is not an act of recollection, but a re-imagining of a new image. Every face remembered is that of a stranger. The man’s original visage burns away as the act of imagination warps memory—elevating the transience of recollection.
[3] Slow Burn
Some envision memory as a file cabinet; others conceive it as a biological hard drive. Both metaphors are wrong: memory is not an act of recollection, but a re-imagining of a new image. Every face remembered is that of a stranger. The man’s original visage burns away as the act of imagination warps memory—elevating the transience of recollection.
[4] Cruentum Katharos
Depicts the tarnishing of innocence. “Katharos” is the Koine Greek term for “without admixture”, to be free from sin and desire, while “Cruentum” signifies “with admixture”. Combined, they signify “blood-stained innocence”. Incorporating Salvador Dali’s use of iconography, the animal horns connote society’s lechery and immorality.
[5] Stagnant Depths
Kinetic movement, something vague yet strangely cohesive. Impressions of the unconscious mind, faint glimpses painted furiously onto the canvas. It portrays the transience of thoughts.
[6] Fantasia Series
Happiness is simple. You don’t think to be happy. Even if finding happiness is difficult, happiness itself exists as a precise, brief moment of euphoria, rapture, ecstasy… undeterred by logical thought or some other fickle complaint about reality. To go back to the basics: to create beauty because of love for beauty. Fantasia Series encompasses the following works: Spirit, Earth, Prayer, Capriciousness, and Fragrance.
[7] Borderline Blue Human
Embodies the boundary separating the sea and the sky, the gradient of blue that fuses liquid with gas. Ideas and thoughts freely float about like gas particles, and materialise into our line of sight through condensation. Art is the condensation, thus the manifestation, of conceptual thoughts into reality.
[8] Mirrored Crossroads
Inspired by Michel Foucault’s “Of Other Spaces”, the work explores the different ideals formed when envisioning a civilisation. Three distinct icons are painted on separate mirror panes, which align to converge into the illusion of a face when perceived from a certain vantage point (see right). The face represents our ideal of a perfect society. Observed anywhere else, the illusion breaks and the icons separate, representing the breakdown of our ideals and eventual collapse of any civilisation.
