Artist Statement

Through my work, I explore my response to the fundamental questions of life, spirituality, and the inner logic of things. In the process of creating images, I draw on literature, science, religion and different philosophies from the East and the West in the hope of finding a common comfort and peaceful energy in the so-called ‘emptiness’ of existence, which is far beyond the description of language. Through printmaking, I try to represent the unrepresentable and the inconceivable that often appear in quantum mechanical images' relevant properties. I try to feel this presence in the abstract rather than define it, and at the same time it is an exploration of a deeper philosophical proposition of emptiness.

The process of printmaking corresponds to a  a network of causes and conditions on which the existence of things depends. And both the creator and the creation‘s being are like the way the self and all phenomena come into existence termed paticca samutppada, or dependent origination. Through experimentation with fluidity and randomness in printmaking, the role of the ‘subject’ is constantly changing, and ultimately I understand that the forces that make matter and control our existence come from the interplay of those elusive, tiny beings that form us with the void of space, as Lucretius argued in the first century B.C. ‘if there were no emptiness, nothing could move.’ In my printmaking, I try to change the habitual mode of the senses as much as possible, and In a more ‘non-self’ state handed over the image more to that much bigger thing behind the ‘I’.