Artwork note / critical writing
Building upon my previous exploration and research on the role of painterliness as a form of language, I have expanded my perspectives by incorporating insights from various female writers. I delved into more writings from Anne Carson, particularly focusing on her profound expressions regarding desire and longing.
My practice focus on the profound landscape of human experience and its nuanced transformation through the medium of language and painting. My exploration unfolds from the realm of desire and longing, as inspired by Anne Carson's writings. to the focus of lacking articulated by Helene Cixous.
The human condition, I find, unfolds in a delicate dance of push and pull forces, the dynamic play also enhance the sensation when immersed in the reading of Sappho’s fragments. Whereas the fragments are not only creating the desire to be understood, but serve as a catalyst for interaction and imagination. This also mirror the sense of intimacy to me, where intertwine with the desire and longing, situated myself at a place in between both point, reaching and detaching on both.
Through the literary landscape, it then propels me into the realm of feminine force and power, lead by the insights of Marina Warner, a distinguished feminist mythographer. Through her interruptions of female energy in mythology, I began to explore more of the multi-faces nature of women in myth, and how it intercross the untranslatable human experiences.
Painting is acting as a medium to translate and visualise such sense to me. Whilst not only it was shown as the image, but the process of washing out, melting and layering by medium I used in my painting. In such rhythmic gesture created by paint unleash the imagination of audience, inviting to scenery of their desire.