Temple (2012)
Ink On Wax
Artist Statement:
I am interested in the transformation of the artist's photographic material, evoking spiritual potential of the medium, printing on surfaces like stones, white marble, and cement. I want to tie my practice closely with processes, with meaning and theory generated not only by philosophies and ancient scriptures and myths but by the artistic process itself, as the image-making process turns further inward to explore its own significance.
The art that I consciously choose to create, builds a historical and ancient scriptural material to a deeper level, yearning to redraft mystical events. I have always recognized the spiritual scriptural narration as a crucial part of a problem, and I aim to grasped these narratives shake them, condense them and attempt to transmute new meanings in visual forms. I am interested to adopted allegorical images to convey the ideas associated with ancient scriptural narrative. The works are metaphorical, adopting allegorical images to convey ideas to take viewer into the depths of memory and historical oblivion and radiate from those mental states into a communal transcendental experience. With reference of photography to the integral unorthodox processes, shifts its meaning to become an abstract form, opening up new meanings. Within this context I explore the relationship of the abstract photographic image to the inner world, and also notions of exteriority and interiority as these relate to the transition from the unconscious to conscious reality.
-Ruyi Wong
The art that I consciously choose to create, builds a historical and ancient scriptural material to a deeper level, yearning to redraft mystical events. I have always recognized the spiritual scriptural narration as a crucial part of a problem, and I aim to grasped these narratives shake them, condense them and attempt to transmute new meanings in visual forms. I am interested to adopted allegorical images to convey the ideas associated with ancient scriptural narrative. The works are metaphorical, adopting allegorical images to convey ideas to take viewer into the depths of memory and historical oblivion and radiate from those mental states into a communal transcendental experience. With reference of photography to the integral unorthodox processes, shifts its meaning to become an abstract form, opening up new meanings. Within this context I explore the relationship of the abstract photographic image to the inner world, and also notions of exteriority and interiority as these relate to the transition from the unconscious to conscious reality.
-Ruyi Wong
