I was born in a family which have a close relationship with nature. We often spend time in the mountains. That is the reason why my preferences of choosing colors or materials are formed by my subconsciousness of nature. I often feel that there is an abstract sense of atmosphere in nature that can create a quiet time and space that provides a chance for people to think about their self-consciousness. At the same time, I think my ability to make lyrical narratives through my works is limited. I prefer that my works can create a metaphorical pattern and deceptively simple visual experience which can take viewers into an abstract space that evokes their self-consciousness.
Yichu Shi
My work is now like a space, lined with "The containers of the soul". Under the seemingly marginal confined circle is infinite space. The repetition of symbolic patterns, the characteristics of circles with no corners, and the various levels of different shades and transparency create a contradictory space of cyclical change and also stillness. When viewers puts themselves in the picture, each similar but different circle is like the choice of the viewer's own emotions, feelings, and behaviours on that second, that minute, that hour or that day.
Neuron
I enjoy using some materials that are relatively not used frequently( I mean maybe not so familiar to the viewers ), or hiding the characteristics of a material. At the same time, changing its ordinary ways of using can make viewers not directly notice what is going on about it. Instead, there will be a certain degrees of confusion in their mind. In this way, uncertainty seems can be brought into the pictures.
Medium:
Mixed materials on boardSize:
35cm*35cm
My favorite book in my childhood titled The Secret Garden makes me think that It is true that different people have different experience and different ways of expressing positive feeling. However, in my opinion, nature can be the one that most likely to bring a large number of people a sense of joy. A tree, a flower, or the fragrance can bring people a pure enjoyment. So, when I do some outdoor activities, things like mushrooms, pine cones, stone in nature can give me inspiration of the colour scheme in my painting.
Medium:
Mixed materials on papersSize:
22cm*22cm*3
Cover I
Cover III
I found that the carrier materials I usually use is various types of paper, and the watercolours I used always immerse in it, unlike oil painting materials that often stop on canvas with modelling paste. In this way, the different depths of colour getting into the paper of my work seem to create a kind of "space ". Plus the last glossy paint, the length of viewing time or different angles will show the viewers a change of picture, which seems to create a" time" for the work itself. And the possibility of changing time and space is precisely related to the “uncertainty” in painting that I was interested in.
Medium:
Mixed materials on boardSize:
28cm*28cm*3
When you look at the picture carefully, you will find that although there is no realistic painting techniques, it does not mean that it is a two-dimensional picture. The interaction of moist pigments and surface support, coupled with the appearance of different layers of circles, breaks the limitation of the boundary. Just like every possible special impulse or emotion can break down the fixed rule of life, creating more flowing time and space for the existing limitations.
Medium:
Mixed materials on canvas and boardSize:
50cm*50cm
Beethoven begins with the clear statement of a rhythmic and harmonic pattern and then, in an intricate tonal dance, carefully avoids repeating it. What Beethoven does is to preserve an element of uncertainty in his music, making our brains beg for the one chord he refuses to give us. Beethoven saves that chord for the end. The longer we feel uncertain of the pattern in art work, the greater the emotional released when the pattern get understood at last, safe and sound. That is when we get the positive emotion.
Medium:
Mixed materials on canvasSize:
75cm*75cm
