BD23D

Most of my works are formulated in series in relatively large number. To me, art is the means of understanding my own reasons for existing:  As an artist, I try to express through visual means the thoughts and imaginings that arise out of my own life experience.  My primary concerns as an artist, which are both elemental and universal, are: (1) the collective creative mind of humanity; (2) civilization’s accomplishments and also its destructive power; (3) and the efforts of humanity and human beings to redeem civilization in balance with nature.  I attempt not only to create art for its own sake but also to experience the art-making process and to share my awareness of it with others.

 

LINES & SIGNS II (from SCIACShow September 4 – October 16, 2004)

"No matter how complicated the world becomes, in a quiet momentone must feel the wonderment of being alive as a human being on this planet. There is a fundamental desire in all of us to connect with one another in the community of humanity. My recent work in the exhibition titled LINES & SIGNS II explores the means humanity has devised for expressing intangible thoughts and feelings by using the motifs of pure abstraction such as lines and signs. I am paying tribute to the ingenuity of the human mind that expresses through systems of writing, visual representation, mathematical symbols, musical notations and other signifying forms. Numerical systems, Chinese, Japanese and English characters and writings, musical notes and bars, architectural notations, mathematical curves and random calligraphic lines that suggest movements and images of nature are the elements that I work with. It is my hope that some of these pieces will become instruments that trigger thoughts about the continuum of creativity."