2016-2018
Seep in / Seep Out / Object / Image
2018 Aotu Space
138 x 197 x 157 inches
Purple cabbage dye, Bloodwood dye, turmeric dye, madder dye, dragon fruit dye, matcha, indigo, handmade paper with dragon fruit, inkjet prints on rice paper, metallic and rice papers on paper, synthetic pigment, acrylic medium; organza, faux fur, inkjet prints on vinyl, and plastic.
Seep In / Seep Out / Object / Image was exhibited at Aotu Space within a traditional Beijing hutong space. The work highlights the tense relationship between what we perceive as ‘natural’ and ‘synthetic’.
Integrated into the large back panels of Seep In / Seep Out are photographs of fantastically horned romanesco that mirror the same acidic green of the translucent, plastic party cups stacked in small mountains at the base of the layers of paper. Traditionally, the synthetic takes the form of the natural; here I invert this relationship.
The alchemic changes organic materials undergo reflect the work’s inquiries into shifts and movement. Purple cabbage dye transforms quickly into an intense blue with the addition of an iron mordant, and the bubble gum pink on hanging rice paper cuttings is short lived as the baiju-mordanted red dragon fruit mutates into a creamsicle orange over the span of a few weeks.
Collage studies for Seep In / Seep Out / Object / Image / 2018
Work on paper / 2016-2018
Photographs for Seep In / Seep Out / Object / Image / 2018
