Most of the beautiful things I have ever created, came after a period of heart aches and turbulences. It is literally like giving birth, you must allow the old patterns and once safe ground to shatter, and allow yourself to be broken open, eventually from the cracks and wounds, a new life can come to be. It is in the heart ache, we realize that we no longer fit into the old life that we identify ourselves with. A change must be made, we must build ourselves up from the crumbles and pieces, to become new. It can a terrifying experience to break away from the old life, but refusing the invitation is not an option. The old self either shatters from within, or is crushed by outer events.
From heaven and below
I have always been as an avid tarot cards practitioner, since the very moment I saw a small desk contained only the 22 major arcana illustrated by an unknown Japanese artist on my aunt’s bookshelf. I was only 8 at that time. Since then, tarot cards have always been my trustful travel companion, the voice of wisdom in the moments of sufferings and hardships, it provides a possibility to dialogue with my subconscious, my intuition and my own true understanding about myself, which often are buried under layers and layers of noises from the outside world, the learned self-criticisms and judgements. The divination, is always a connection between the heaven and earth, the outer events and our inner landscapes. Often we have already sensed what might be coming, but our desires and fears prevent us to hear the warnings. If we open our heart, allow it to feel the possible aches of destruction and the joys often come after the new life built, we too can learn to live in this ever changing world with unshakable inner peace.
Breaking the boundaries between the originals and replicas
To strive the true freedom of creativity, I want to make this line of paintings each with a series of 10 originals, to blur the line between originals and replicas. I believe there is something irreplaceable with the originals, yet the idea of “one of and the only” hinters the freedom to experiment freely, and make the “only one original” sacred and the process frivolous, while I believe what makes the art experience truly transcendent lies exactly on the process. It’s the journey that matters. Each paintings in each series will use different colors, techniques and even slightly different drawings but remains recognizable with same design, yet projects a range of different atmospheres and evokes different emotions. I will create them not in the traditional tarot cards desk order, but follow flow my own life and what it inspires.
The Aching Hearts
The first two series is “Moon” and “Three of Swords”. “Moon” shows a blindfolded woman running through a mood-lighted wildness, while a demon-like creature hiding among the tall grass in the near vicinity. Titled “Love is Blind”, the blindfolded woman reminds us though we all crave for love and connection, what we look for is often our own projection, as if we are blindfolded in our ceaseless search and exposed to all the dangers out there in the darkness. As always, what we look for outwards, must be first be found inside; otherwise, we are already lost.
“Three of Swords” traditionally shown as a heart cut through by three swords, represents a period of heart aches and sadness. In “The Day After You Left, It Rained the Whole Day”, it shows a hopeful image after the rock bottom, the world might still seem gloomy from the sense of lost, but the new hopes are present in every corner, like those golden rain drops reflecting the shimmering sunlight pierced through the dark clouds. There is beauty everywhere, even in the bleakest moment.
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