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Issue 4: Metabolizer

From Representation to Expression: Constructing Emotional Experience in Un-Rotted Bloom

My creative practice has always revolved around one central question: how can emotion be expressed rather than merely represented? When I first began learning painting, I used to believe that expression meant the visualisation of emotion. This assumption is still visible in my earlier works. Whether abstract or figurative, all of them were guided by […]

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Issue 4: Metabolizer

Absurdity as Artistic Strategy: Re-activating Bodily Perception

An essay examining how absurdity, as an artistic strategy, reawakens perception and reframes seeing and being seen in overlooked everyday actions.

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Issue 4: Metabolizer

Material Dialogues: Reflection, Chance and Perception in Expanded Painting

An exploration of expanded painting. This essay examines how material agency, embodied perception, and chance operations transform painting into an ecological practice.

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Issue 3: Unresolve

Expressing Mother-daughter Relationship Through Installation Photography

This essay discusses the harm I suffered in the mother-daughter relationship based on the way my mother and I got along in the past as I created my work.

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Issue 2: Making Conversation

The concept of family equality in modern society

This essay combines author articles, sociological research, and personal experiences with numerous sociological papers to investigate the author’s perspectives on their upbringing.

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Issue 2: Making Conversation

Installation and Fictioning for Engagement, Social Justice, and Change.

This essay discusses why the ‘artistic interventions’ of installation, and ‘fictioning’ are particularly suitable when the work is underpinned by social justice concerns and has the aim of engaging dialogue for change.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

Analysis of the current situation of environmental artists

This essay proposes the idea of recycling creative consciousness, combined with the creation of personal environmental art works for analysis.