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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’.

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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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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.

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A Drop of the Unknown: Creating emptiness in printmaking

This essay pursues invisible existence, exploring emptiness through an experimental approach in the materiality of printmaking and subject transformation.

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Modern Influences on Human-Animal Interactions

An exploration of how technology, climate change, urbanization, and media reshape human-animal relationships, ethical responsibilities, and societal roles toward animals and the environment.

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Polyphony of Ashes and Words: Whispers of Existence

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.

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Exchange Dialogues: Navigating Cross-Cultural Spiritual Pathways in Art

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.

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Human and Nature: Rebirth, repair and new symbiosis

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.

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Sublime, Creating Environment for Meditative Calm and Encountering Landscape

This essay reflects my research on encountering landscapes, creating an environment for meditative calm and the idea of sublime.

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Harmony of Verse and Mind

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

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Self-expression: Revisit narrative landscape painting

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.

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Split Bodies: The Construction of Women’s Character in Otaku Culture

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.

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Unnatural Distinction

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.

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On the Exploration and Development of Contemporary Artists in the Field of Cosmology

I hope that through this essay to let the readers and viewers feel the contemporary art in the field of cosmology shine.

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There is an ocean between you and me 

An essay discussing how artists and audiences rely on works of art to complete invisible conversations.

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The Art of Imagery in Drawing: Landscape of Memory

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.

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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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A Reflection on Industrialism in Photographic Image Production

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.

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The Fundamentally Flawed Quality of a Painting

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.

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Limitations and Possibilities in the Dialogue between Art and Gaming

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.

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The Transfer of “Self-Consciousness”

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.

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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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The uncanny in three-dimensional works

An essay discussing three-dimensional work created under the influence of Donald Judd’s ‘Specific Objects’.

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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.

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Performance as gentle resistance

This article will analyse performance art as a gentle rebellion and messages of noncooperation from the artworks by artists and non-artists.

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Comfort home in games online: When play is not just about fun

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.

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How my paintings rebels the era of mass media and digital communication.

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.

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Painting as a returning object

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.

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Happy Death Day: Revisiting Feminism in Abortion in the Chinese Context 

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.

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The body in the in-between – painting the glitched body

This essay highlights different approaches to translate the body into the digital space and reflects on how this affects our understanding of this body.

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Red Dots, Entropy, and Syntax

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 […]

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Bad painting appear as a phenomena

Taking “bad painting” as the phenomenon, this paper probes into my artistic methodology.

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The Importance of Touch: Rubbing, Printmaking and the Expanded Field of Drawing in my Practice

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

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The possibility of Software as life in Capitalist Ruins

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.

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Feminist Art in Digital Space

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.