Painting Until it Becomes Marble - Love Never Dies, 2019
Live action painting
Dimensions: 355 cm (w) x 900 cm (h) 163 g/m², 10 kg
Material: Chinese Ink, Ultramarine Blue Powder Pigment on paper
"Painting Until it Becomes Marble - Love Never Dies" is an abstract ink painting I created using my own hair as the brush. The live performance took place under Yoko Ono's installation, "The Cricket Memories, 1998," which features tiny empty cricket cages hanging from the ceiling, each labeled with a human catastrophe. Yoko invited the audience to write down their own griefs. I was invited to respond to Yoko's legacy and create a live performance for Museum Night at the Museum of Fine Art, Leipzig. I had just lost my beloved mother-in-law after a year-long battle with cancer. In response to this profound sense of loss, I decided to create a hair painting where the masculine calligraphy became a female body's movement.
As an action painter, my work is a physical manifestation of emotion. This unique medium allowed me to capture my profound feelings of loss in a raw and visceral way. Through the drops of ink and the movement of my body, I connected action and mind, creating an expression of sorrow on paper.
This piece is part of an ongoing series of Hair Paintings that began in 2011. Each piece is dedicated to a female or a community’s struggles.
