1. Why you choose this sensitive topic concerning about the identity as your main theme?
2. People always think that the artists chose some particular topic to express own feelings as the art is their emotional outlet. So can you tell us what do you want to express through your artwork?
3. What's your ideal creative environment?
4. For you, what's the ideal life as an artist?
5. One of your picture capture the scene with the words saying that "You're an authentic Chinese, so naturally you're not like the Shanghainese she mentioned." How you think about this sentence?
6. We should emphasis on the image or the words when appreciating your work?
7.What's your aim putting one line on the image? Helping us to understand your work? Some of the lines are really thoughtful.
8. People are interested in one series of your artworks, the painting on movies. Can you tell us why you want to make this series?
9. How you choose the material? After watching a movie and then get you eureka moment?
10. I notice that you have another related series of artwork -- video on painting. Could you compare the differences between these two series?
It would be interesting to find out why the artist chose to use enamel paint to draw on the canvas to depict the series of artworks on Shanghai instead of using photo montage or collage which he often uses. As Nicole has pointed out, the colours of the series of works tend to be on the dark side, conveying a sense of heaviness. Is there any significance in the lightness of the colours used?
回复删除In producing the series, did the artist have at the back of his mind of comparing Hong Kong with Shanghai? Hong Kong and Shanghai have many similarities and yet they are different because of historical reasons.