CPP Session 3:Loose Parts and their Display

Found/sourced parts of your research can include physical or digital:      

Objects / forms: 1.Blue Printed Fabric/2.autobiography/3.etching/4.lithography/5.screen printing/6.ceramic/7.soft oil pastel /8.water color /9.zine    

Surfaces / textures: 10. wax painting /11. silk/12.Cotton & Linen/13.Penetration      

Photographs / renderings: 14.Scriptures/15.Tate’s white church      

Artworks/prints / illustrations (from other’s practices, not your own):16. the milk of dreams/17.Antidotes      

Film or animation clips: 18.endless poetry/19.My Brilliant Friend      

Text / signs / quotes: 20.from biennale/21.film/22.books       

Sound/field recordings / audio speech: 23. healing room/24.live house

Ideas for CPP Format:

A Visual Essay interspersed with some Video/Performance Essay

A large part of my research focuses on personal growth and my reflection on the objects and things around me. I would like to use an immersive and visual way to record the matters around my journey and add some performance to document my involvement, feelings, and reflections, and to gradually refine ideas and writing.

Final research question：

How can a symbol——The Blue Butterfly be used to narrate the harvest and growth, pain and healing of growing up form child to adult in an autobiographical format?

Topic：

Personal growth and healing, surrealism（feminism, spirituality and nature）

Live Drawing

In this live drawing, with the model in dark sidelights and only 10-20 minutes per sketch, I had to paint what I captured quickly.

At the same time, it shifted my attention to the body as a whole, the shaping of the atmosphere, the sensory and fantasy parts more than focusing on one part.

Screen printing process

I create butterflies in KINTSUGI way, piecing together the whole from the incomplete. The philosophy of accepting imperfection and the Zen state of pursuing the flow of the mind combine to make this screen print.

I had not envisaged them coming together so harmoniously, as if they were works of interplay of energy in themselves.

In this attempt at screen printing, I describe the relationship between blue and gold in my perspective. When one appears the other is also present at the same time, near and far.

The 99 butterflies in the bottom half are images that I have painted in a stream of consciousness, like uninterpreted scriptures. While the two butterflies, blue and gold, appear as the two poles of yin and yang, which are mutually exclusive.

Mono print

I used mono print to present my aesthetic fascination from childhood – ancient Greek portraits, especially the side faces. The blue colour is also coincidentally used as a background colour for many ancient Greek paintings.

British Museum: Monumental – Past / Present / Future Collection

I was excited to get up close to rare archives and artworks in the British Museum’s Drawing Room. I sketched some of the animal artwork as well as some favourite side faces, the symbols of animals and nature and the richness of their expression.

I also took photos with the Sumerian civilisation, which has always interested me, and my subsequent research will incorporate more of what is of interest, including ancient civilisations and wisdom.