Sediment

Material: Synthetic Pigments、Natural Pigment (Snaefellsjoekull Red、Zirconium、Red Ochre)、Gel Medium、Oil and Acrylic on canvas

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Regarding my use of colors, I have intentionally chosen paint that specifies its pigment composition. This allows me to obtain information of the original ingredients to search for their physical appearances and forms, which I usually find quite beautiful and surprising. Therefore, these discoveries often encourage me to research into the historical and contemporary use of these ingredients (mostly minerals) or their distribution locations. Consequently, I have come into contact with colors that I normally would not pick. The re-arrangement and new understandings of these colors and their composition have enabled me to imagine their use in a way.

As scattered information, minerals are broken up into pigments before the are used and converted into brushstrokes and color blocks on the canvas. To me, the process of painting is no longer the expression of feelings or formal effects through one’s intuition and taste. Instead, it has become the re-organization and re-arrangement of matter and information through the formal language of painting. As these materials and forms change constantly, the charm of the colors is also highlighted during the process.

Painting, in this case, is no longer an instrument of image representation.