ouroborous 永远的盘桓

"ouroborous" marks my 1st video work. an altarful of candles burning at both ends & a pack with the devil to get it completed in time for my april show. in the meanwhile, here are a few screen caps & the trailer...

  

topographies of loss 还如一梦中

this series preceded "7 elements". conceived a few years back, 

it came out premature but alive, unlike its stillborn predecessors. it was a tough 

one to nurture. i was improvising as i groped for bearings as a person & artist. 

in the 3 years it took to complete, i had changed in sensibility, & aching to 

begin what was to become "7 elements". still, i kept to its original style & 

spirit. i like to think of it as a time capsule. of the time before i was 

braver in dealing with those raw emotions, layering them with 

metaphors & cuteness.

there are few more in this series yet unrealised. who knows, i might, in 

nostalgic weakness, revisit them should i live long enough.

statement

loss is a part of life. this i accept. it’s the forgetting against which i struggle. 

my work is a mnemonic for me to remember things that matter, lost along the way. 

duplication, building redundancy prolongs memory across a proliferation 

of files & media. though no copy's ever exact. each reiteration introduces changes. memory becomes transformed through those uncountable attempts to preserve it. 

that too is a loss. the loss of authenticity.

coloured by the cartoons & comics of my childhood, i populate my universe with 

characters as proxies for a moment or mood. in fixing these half-lives onto 

a medium, i hope to hold onto or reclaim what’s gone.

in all these, i'm portrayed as an airborne jellyfish -- a creature as absurdly 

fictional as my belief in my ability to staunch this loss. & whose form mutates as 

i travel across these landscapes of loss.