2016-2023
Chinese ink and acrylic on yupo paper
In Naturally Natural, I work with Chinese ink, acrylic, and gold on Yupo paper to explore how forms emerge through uneven encounter. I begin the process, but I do not fully determine it. Instead, I allow the materials to meet, resist, spread, gather, and separate, so that the work develops through a collaboration between intention, matter, and chance.
What emerges is rarely a unified field. I am drawn to patchiness: dense clusters, fragile threads, ruptures, blooms, and empty intervals. These uneven formations feel closer to the way nature actually behaves, through localized growth, interruption, and shifting relation, rather than through balance or symmetry. I think of these works as layered systems in which different forces overlap without fully settling into a single order.
The resulting surfaces can suggest roots, fungal networks, mineral deposits, waterways, weather, or cellular structures. They move between the microscopic and the landscape, between organic spread and spatial mapping. I am interested in that unstable territory where one system begins to resemble another, where growth, decay, and drift coexist.
Rather than simply depicting ecology, I want these works to behave ecologically, through accumulation, divergence, and transformation. The white ground remains active as a space of suspension and emergence, while gold functions not only as illumination, but also as concentration, deposit, or wound.