narrative of the May Painting

The story is what ultimately remains of one’s life, experiences, memories and recollections. Painting to me is the process of creating stories through lines rather than words. I wanted to tell ordinary stories created in the spaces we inhabit. The emotions and experiences seen and felt in the passing of seasons, on my everyday walking route, or during fleeting moments spent in unfamiliar places are recorded as photographs, which become the foundation of my work, I fill up the space occupied by little everyday things with myriad lines, each with its own direction and flow. I take the stories of a place or a subject, vibrating in the cognitive space floating in the air of a place, between the known and the unknowable, and translate them into the visual language of lines. I want to listen to the narrativity that envelopes life using my artistic methodology of lines and text. Taking in a full picture of stories constructed over time, in the process of thoughtfully drawing each line, my work is the liner narrative of the spatiality of the canvas, where the beginning and end of the story is shown in a single frame. I think this is akin to the spatiality of a book, which is a physical compilation of language, shared temporally in a designated order. I admire the act of story making. If I were to compare my work to writing, it would be like a collection of essays based on everyday life. I create personal but universal stories in a corner of a landscape both familiar and strange.