Combining Western and Eastern concepts, my work explores the different relationships that exist between contemporary practices and conventional approaches in visual arts.
This work is a self-reflection about how we can construct our internal world by contemplating time. My work explores visibility and invisibility with the concept of time and spontaneity and physicality in the process of installation. It examines worldviews of time and space through Eastern and Western perspectives and reflects the meditative experience of emptiness as dynamic space. My work is rooted in the Asian belief that life is a cycle while also reflecting the principle of Yin and Yang. I use these concepts and theories in order to express my response to the natural flow of life and the duality of ideas between the East and West. My installations incorporate both concepts of time from the West and East — one from the West where time is understood as linear and one from the East where it is regarded as circular. They represent the progression of time that embraces and filters all human emotions in its immeasurable vastness.
In eastern Asian cultures, a lotus flower symbolizes the one who overcomes the pain that prevails in the material world and becomes enlightened, just like the lotus flower that grows in dirty and muddy water but manages to surpass the water and produce a perfect flower. The lotus flower centered in the forest of threads signifies purity, enlightenment, self-regeneration and rebirth as a symbolic meaning regarded in eastern Asian cultures.
