Two essays, one exploring the problems that have sprung from the commodification of art. The other dealing with arts relation to nature. Both trying to use a Marxist and Hegelian lens.
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In this essay I reflect on my process and the thematic of home.
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 […]
This essay examines my position as someone in-between Bai culture—neither fully inside nor outside. Using Fei Xiaotong’s concept of “field,” I explore how this in-between state shapes my relationship with cultural identity.
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Building My Own Haven
Exploring how painting transforms psychological distance into the language of urban emotion.
An essay examining how absurdity, as an artistic strategy, reawakens perception and reframes seeing and being seen in overlooked everyday actions.
An essay exploring the use of non-human metaphors in literature to illuminate psychology and my painting practice.
This essay explores the inbetween state through the domestic window grill, analyzing it as a paradoxical boundary, threshold, and portal to affirm liminal fluidity.
This text presents my reflection on my own painting experience, discussing what draws me in during the process of painting and why I resist excessive interpretation of my work.
A description of a haptic encounter with an object in a way which critically and imaginatively examines touch as an embodied and material process. Drawing on a material language from writers such as Derrida and Merleau-Ponty, touch is vividly defined as a fundamental hinge between us, the subject, and the objective world.
The essay explores how natural and digital “skins” act as responsive surfaces that store memory and shape interaction. Through installations that merge bark, skin and glitching textures, my practice explores slower, attentive forms of touch and the ethical relationships that arise when organic and technological rhythms meet.
An exploration of expanded painting. This essay examines how material agency, embodied perception, and chance operations transform painting into an ecological practice.
My writing explores explores how empty landscapes and moonlight create spaces for contemplating modern solitude and emotional connection.
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Modern Ruins
Reflections on sculptural practice-as-research through the latter half of 2024, and my rediscovery of ‘autoethnography’. This project began in the notion of ‘monumentality’.
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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Crowds, us
This essay explores societal isolation and invisible boundaries through illusionary spaces and figures, reflecting the collective impact of social divisions within broader structures.
This essay pursues invisible existence, exploring emptiness through an experimental approach in the materiality of printmaking and subject transformation.
An exploration of how technology, climate change, urbanization, and media reshape human-animal relationships, ethical responsibilities, and societal roles toward animals and the environment.
This essay explores the intersections of culture, identity, and materiality in contemporary art through poetic reflections and installations inspired by modular structures, ephemeral materials, and dual cultural experiences.
This essay reflects on my interview with artist Yin-Ju Chen, exploring the topics of cross-cultural art practice, shamanism, identity and AI, and the role of spirituality in contemporary contexts.
This essay explores the interconnectedness of life, death, nature, and pollution, examining how symbiosis in the Anthropocene reflects human impact on the environment.
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Tracing a Subtle Feedback
This reflection on painting reexamines the process of observation as an active form of interaction. It is supported by theories on perception, Art Therapy, and raises an inquiry on the categorical distinctions between symbolic dialogue and social practice.
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Diphylleia grayi: In-between
A reflection on thresholds through an intertwined practice of drawing and embroidery, exploring the relationship between line, body, intimacy and existence.
This essay reflects my research on encountering landscapes, creating an environment for meditative calm and the idea of sublime.
The study explores into the collaboration between humans and machines, exploring how they creativity come together to make interactive art in the fields of poetry language and neuroscience. By connecting these different areas, the goal is to discover new ways of artistic expression.
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On Memory
Exploring the possibility of preserving memory and containing emotion in the face of loss and grief
The essay traces my artistic evolution from realistic painting under socialist realism to a quest for artistic freedom and primarily explores the possibility of transcending the constraints of national ideology in my personal landscape paintings, aiming for self-expression. It also critically analyzes and attempts to philosophically position my painting practice based on Adorno aesthetic theories.
This paper describes contemporary subcultural traits and reflects on the impact of East Asian otaku culture’s stereotypical construction of the female figure in online animation on the virtual body and the real physical body.
This essay explores the decline of ecosystems in the post-human era, outlines the author’s artistic practice during the MA, accessing digital technology to create a series of scenic fragments about ecological crisis.
I hope that through this essay to let the readers and viewers feel the contemporary art in the field of cosmology shine.
An essay discussing how artists and audiences rely on works of art to complete invisible conversations.
This essay discusses my research on the art of imagery in the creation of drawings, which is combined with examples of artworks and my personal artistic practice to discuss the influence of landscape, imagery, and picturesque concepts on my creative thinking.
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Feme Covert
This essay explores the stories of wives eclipsed from history. Documenting how using feminist historiography and storytelling within my practice can make these absent lives visible and provide us with alternative histories.
This essay combines author articles, sociological research, and personal experiences with numerous sociological papers to investigate the author’s perspectives on their upbringing.
This essay explores the production process of photographic images influenced by the technological and industrial mechanism, while reflecting on alternatives to deal with the redundancy in image viewing.
Tom is a neo-expressionist painter based in London studying an MA in painting at UAL: Camberwell. In Tom’s essay he will discuss the political economy of the modern art market.
This essay delves into the intricate relationship between art and games, critically examining their intersections, conflicts, and symbiosis in aesthetics, culture, and technology. It seeks to explore additional possibilities through a reflective approach.
This paper focuses on the flow of people’s selves into digital space as the times have moved on, and reflects on the implications of this for millennials’ self-understanding as well as suggesting new ways of thinking about it.
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.
An essay discussing three-dimensional work created under the influence of Donald Judd’s ‘Specific Objects’.
This essay proposes the idea of recycling creative consciousness, combined with the creation of personal environmental art works for analysis.
This article will analyse performance art as a gentle rebellion and messages of noncooperation from the artworks by artists and non-artists.
An essay discussing about the game. When games are not only just screen activities for enjoyment. Point out new context that games can take. Connect people with a sense of home.
This essay, in the tone of a practice report, outlines the author’s artistic practice during the MA, discussing how painting was used as a weapon to resist the late capitalist, consumer, image-infested era.
This article discusses the history of object returns, and how painting, as an object both shaped and participating in the shaping of the creator’s actions, becomes a visual representation of the tension between subject and object.
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A record of immediate thoughts on the author’s own works, creative process and art from a first-person perspective; reflects on the art and artworks that the author has seen and heard with one’s consciousness which carries the author’s subjective recognition.
The artist seeks to explore a new perspective on abortion based on feminism. By making it possible for a wider audience to participate in the search for a new perspective on abortion, the patriarchy’s devaluation and natural stigmatisation of women who have had abortions can be dismantled.
This essay highlights different approaches to translate the body into the digital space and reflects on how this affects our understanding of this body.
in the Textual Shoes of Sandor Krasna1 1 The name of the fictitious cameraman whose imaginary letters read by a female narrator constitute the narration of the film ‘Sans Soleil’ (1983) by Chris Marker. Part 1. Parting of Ways When we were animals, we existed in chaos of nature. The world surrounding us posed dangers […]
Taking “bad painting” as the phenomenon, this paper probes into my artistic methodology.
This essay will discuss my research into touch as a means of exploring the world. It will talk about my practice in relation to rubbing, casting, imprints and printmaking in the expanded field of drawing.
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Depicting Impermanence
A discussion on the conceptual idea and various means of depicting time in contemporary art and the artist’s own practice
Myths in digital practice: the art of self-presentation under digitalized society and the possibility of software as a kind of memory of human symbiosis.
A talk and an essay about my research about re-architecting female‘s daily life in the digital space through performance, and using 3D cyborg to perform instead of live-action performance.