Reverb III
Reverb III was an art installation of monoprints from my Reverb Series, a collection of large-scale mixed-media prints inspired by the forest of symbols and synesthetic concepts in Baudelaire’s poem “Correspondences”.
Reverb III is a dialogue of the natural and the fabricated.
Suspended throughout a site, my artworks create an immersive environment that heightens the viewer’s awareness of their surroundings as light, reflection, sound, as well as the prints themselves shift and reverberate in response to the viewer’s movements. These pieces are organic yet geometric, kinetic yet static, marred yet precious, unique yet repetitive, seemingly fragile yet sturdy.
Drawing inspiration from fungi, rocks, wood, textiles, and calligraphy, I reshape these motifs by employing unnatural scales, materials, and various printmaking processes to highlight their structural similarities and irregular rhythms. While each print is distinct, they are interconnected through shared structure, composition, and recurring imagery. Most of them are two-sided and evolve through layers of gilding, printing, patinization, waxing, drawing, and scraping. Finally, I allow each piece to finish itself as its wax and metal react to its environment. Through these works, I seek to draw attention to the intricate complexity and perpetual transformation of our environment, as well as our role in reshaping its space and form.
- Aubade: Relief print, lithograph, and rubbing on copper-gilded mulberry paper, 77 1/2″ h x 20″ w
- Fantasie: Wax grattage, relief print, rubbing, and drawing on aluminum-gilded mulberry paper, 60″ h x 15″ w
- Canon: Wax grattage and painting on aluminum-gilded mulberry paper, each 60″ h x 11″ w
- Rondo: Relief print, rubbing, and drawing on Gampi Shi paper, 74″ h x 38″ w
- Nocturne: Etching and relief print on aluminum-gilded mulberry paper, 72″ h x 15″ w
- Serenade: Etching and relief print on aluminum-gilded mulberry paper, 72″ h x 18 1/4″ w
- Con Brio: Relief print on copper-gilded mulberry paper reacted with patina, 61 1/2″ h x 26″ w
- O2R: Relief print and rubbing on silver and aluminum-gilded mulberry paper, 77 1/2″ h x 18″ w
- Untitled: Relief print on copper-gilded mulberry paper, 72″ h x 20″ w
Series: Reverb
Media: Relief print, wax grattage, etching, lithograph, rubbing, painting, and drawing on gilded mulberry paper
Sizes:
- Aubade: 77 1/2″ h x 20″ w
- Fantasie: 60″ h x 15″ w
- Canon: each 60″ h x 11″ w
- Rondo: 74″ h x 38″ w
- Nocturne: 72″ h x 15″ w
- Serenade: 72″ h x 18 1/4″ w
- Con Brio: 61 1/2″ h x 26″ w
- O2R: 77 1/2″ h x 18″ w
- Untitled: 72″ h x 20″ w
Series: Reverb