some old works but a new chance

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Luckily I got a chance to show some works in Glasgow.
These photographs are from one of my old series 'unofficial portrait.'

Steve Mcpherson

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This is the artist that Gregor suggested me to look at. He also works with collected objects but most of them are trash or even just fragments of objects. I love the way of arranging things according to their shapes, colours and themes. Stunning works!!!

Thanks, Gregor :)

http://www.stevemcpherson.co.uk/

about collecting

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Collecting is a condition of humanity. To collect is to possess. Ownership is something that very few people manage to live without, collecting is almost a subconscious activity. What I am interested in is the peripheries and the extremes. Collecting is to do with entertainment; an enthusiasm for a particular object or experience, for whatever reason. The activity results in a collection, the ‘things’ and ‘stuff’ that is personally attached to it’s owner can be as chaotic or as catalogued as you like, in extreme cases activated by a conscious or subconscious fear. The fear of the inexplicable disorder of the universe: Chaos.

To peer into chaos is to have a taste of humanity, it is something the human brain can never conquer. Is the human obsession with the object just a distraction from the grand task of humanity: scientific understanding? I don’t think so. I think the fascination with objects comes from a thirst for knowledge and experience that all humans demonstrate. Connections between the collector and the collected are often easy to spot, sometimes surprising. The collector can usually say a lot about the object but the object can reveal even more about the collector.

(Pictures of some objects that I collected in my country)

Pina

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Lovely film by Wim Wenders for Pina Bausch.
Must see it in 3D!!!







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Ursus Wehrli

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This guy must be obsessed with arranging and manipulating stuff even more than me.

Leanne Shapton

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important artifacts and personal property from the collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, including books, street fashion and jewelry

a book about auction collected objects by a separated couple and how these objects can reveal the personality and sharing memory.

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Joseph Cornell

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The artist who i am looking at. I love the objects and these small spaces which he created within the frames, boxes and containers. Although his works were more about collage, i still can relate some ideas and convention between his and my works.

It can give me another way of thinking about placing my objects in 3D as sculptures or installation. Also make me reconsider about the necessity of using photographs as end products. Most of all, i love the visual representation of his works, so lovely and attractive!!!