Yang is yin's counterpart. The other side of the whole. Forces interconnected and dependent on the other to exist. There can never only be one. Without up there is no down, without sky there is no earth, without stillness there is no motion. Yin is the stillness and yang is the motion, yin is the internal force and yang the external. My internalized ideas can no longer be contained. They have reached their maximum. What follows is the external interpretation of my internal force. Yang is born.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
A Curious Case of Oddity
Gallery Nucleus has been so kind to me and they invited me to participate in a show for the launch of Mike Yamada and Victoria Ying's book called "Curiosities: An Illustrated History of Ancestral Oddity". It is a great book with amazing art and a great story. The show itself was called Curiosities and the idea behind it was that each artist just inherited an old mansion and in that mansion what kind of odd/scary objects did we find there? I immediately thought of a wedding portrait but I wanted it to have a subtle Day of the Dead feel as well as a impending feeling of doom. A marriage not meant to last if you will. So me being me, I chose the short lived coexistence of the male and female mantis. Odd enough for you? I love this piece and hope that someday someone wants to purchase it. "Till Death..."