BEING ALONE TOGETHER 2019
In 2018, while I was about to start my new works, I took some time away to produce this small series, as a personal letter to Hong Kong, where political unrest strikes fear in my homeland.
In time alone, there are moments I perceive a strong connection, soul recognition and resonance to nature and other human beings.
Through this series of mixed media artworks, I express the way being alone is for me. Solitude, which is different from loneliness, emerged as a strikingly visual entity as an aesthetic emotion. In my drawings and photos, I explored with charcoal and ink, clay and plaster, along with poetry to create a ‘spiritual landscape’ expressing a state of mind finding a harmonious place elevated from discordant reality and peacefully embracing one’s solitude in cognitive empathy...
New collection of poetry in English titled BEING ALONE TOGETHER - POEMS ON SOLITUDE FROM 3 CITIES written in London, New York and Stockholm between 2018 - 19 is launched in the exhibition.