Wood and Fibre Show at Fort Canning

I allowed my sculpture to take nature’s course of gradual changes. My solemn belief in human’s fascinating inventions that are always swaying to offset the center of fulcrum that leads to unnatural states of perils and devastation. The performance act of the installation is a kinetic chain reaction caused by gravity, human intervention and organic transformation of wax.

Matter Proofs

Title : Man fused earth
Medium : Fired Clay, Stainless Steel
Wind driven charger, outdoor light fittings

Size : 6m (H) x 2.5m (W) x 2.2m (D)

Maquette scale 1:10


Concept Brief:

The marvel of a fable of a household three pin earthly clay plug plunged into earth drawing energy and nourishing man’s harmony with nature. The duty of the banal electrical gadget is not merely an illustrated copy of a daily object. It is made from mud of the earth’s crust, shaped with a human hand and solidified in a form of a connecting device. It is man’s earthly connection to nature, which is purely deriving natural conscience for the public. Even if it is pure fun, the poetic inspiration is in creating a wind driven eco-techno kinetic sculpture with hand made earth and functioning as a leisure point.
The sculpture will act as beacon of a neighbor park in twilight where strollers would use it as a rest station illuminated by a light source saved by the wind generated power charger. In the breezy afternoon, the wind mobile will spin saving up electrical watts. Its whimsically magnified household thingy can also serves as a conspicuous leisure landmark.

Warriors (wood carving symposium in Holland)

Title of work : Spear-shield in the ancient paradox.

Synopsis of work :
This work is created in response to the theme of warriors from ancient China. It is an allegorical interpretation of a Chinese story in 3rd century BC philosophical book by Han Fei Zi. In the story, a man was trying to sell a spear and a shield. When asked how good his spear was, he said that his spear could pierce any shield. Then, when asked how good his shield was, he said that it could defend from all spear attacks. Then one person asked him what would happen if he were to take his spear to strike his shield; the seller could not answer. This led to the idiom of "zìxīang máodùn" (自相矛盾), or "self-contradictory."

The sculpture took the idiom to a twist of having both the spear and shield on a balance. In such situation, the paradox lies in the shield act as a stoppable force from the shear.

http://www.warriors-assen.nl/

Wood Carving Symposium 2007

Wax and Metal V

For a human consequence, 2006

Wax, Metal and Light Bulbs,
80cm x 25cm x 400 cm

“Blank” SVA Degree Show 2006, Galleries 3, NAFA 1

The works by craft suggest the formation while the functions of technology hasten the deformation. An electrical bulb hence embodies to re-carve the hand-sculpted human body. It underlines the limitation in humanistic control of materials and contests it own by its ability to control electricity. It is a fusion of human and machines that is never quite met, ends up doubling the consequences of the destructions and disruptions by the electrical.

Wax and Metal IV

Installation

Sketch of design

Flesh and skeleton

clay model of the sculpture