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Tags for This Work

• Death
• Installation
• Painting
• Translucency

• Drawing
• Light
• Pale

• Ephemeral
• Mutability
• Temple

Inspiration for This Work

Anitya - Sanskrit for transience. This work focuses on the creation of a sacred space within the secular context of a gallery environment. It is an ephemeral piece, subject to decay and disintegration. It was inspired by death.

Student Biography

I am an Australian artist of Chinese heritage, currently working on the creation of an ephemeral installation that evokes the experience of sacred space. This is an installation of painted scrolls that manipulate translucency and light using abstract marks and repeated calligraphy.

These paintings are the visual manifestation of a meditation process, every stroke a record of time and breath. They decay with the passing of each second, self-conscious of their fragility and not much different from us. Hue and pigment alter with time, paper yellows with age, and eventually, all traces of the artist's presence will disappear. The painstaking work of our hands, and Nature's hands, will always succumb to the reality of time. This conviction is the premise of my art-making practice.

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