Artwork title : Signs of No Signs

With respect in a general sense of traditional Chinese and Western modern art perspectives, I attempt to vitalize certain built-in imageries and present the visual world in a dynamic interaction with environment and the universe.  The color field of this painting creates a sense of calm and purity, and vigorous strokes can convey vibrant ambience in the nature, that lets Abstract Expressionism distinct from gestural abstraction.  In this painting, the solely exclusiveness as well as participatory of the saturation of azure afternoon blue and fluorescent pink colors in its brushwork could be associated with basic passions and appeal.  Besides, it also evokes free flowing of Chi (“Qi” in Chinese pinyin 氣, it means vital impetus) and Wen (Yun in pinyin 韻, it means vital rhythm).

Leaving blank spatiality (留白) takes a significant part of my painting.  Upholding blank space (white), in traditional Chinese painting, signifies an emptiness as another side of solidity (black).  In a very real sense of "blank space", actually it is not a “space in vacuum”.  That is a part of painting but without painting, nor being an expression but unexpressive.  On one hand, it hints to represent the sky, the cloud, the mist, the water to depict stillness of nature.  On the other hand, it creates an open-ended ambiguity to present various possibilities on a boundless space which allows the free flowing of Chi (“Qi” in Chinese pinyin 氣, it means vital impetus) and Wen (Yun in pinyin 韻, vital rhythm).

The ancient Taoist philosopher Laozi (571-471BC) states, “Knowing the white, retaining the black, it is the form of the world.”  Thus, Yin (dynamics for unpainted negative) and Yang (reactionary for painted positive) are contradictory but also self satisfactorily in complement on mutual resonance.  Both the growth and expansion of Chi in space and rhythm extension of Wen in time are brought up calm and quiet energy by liveliness with vitality(氣韻生動), ever reveling in its vigor and spirit to keep pace with the universe that is indulged in a panoramic sign as well as an absent view (no sign) of the pictorial scene.