(Detail from The Interval Series)The two series of works posted below (The Dialectics of Inside and Outside & The Interval Series) are my newest series, and are the resulting pieces in my conceptual investigation of the East Asian concept of the 'Void'. From the artistic perspective of the West, ‘emptiness’ or ‘the void’ is synonymous with negative connotations such as ‘blank space’, ‘lack of representation’, or ‘incompletion’. This is attributed to the difficulty of finding a term corresponding to this concept in the Western artistic lexicon, especially when Western art explicates everything based on forms. However, within the East Asian framework, void is a notion that gives emphasis on the inherent spirit in objects rather than representing them. As such, this concept is used to not only express profound spaces in nature, but also that which is suggested, invisible, and by extension – metaphysical. Thus, my jewellery and object based works aim to explore the way in which this concept expands the limits of available space, intimates the intimate, and confers phenomenological experience. Aesthetically, my works aim to achieve this by means of spatial intonation, and the creation of intimate and hidden spaces within my pieces.
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