Geometric City is my vision of a new city reorganized by dividing and arranging geometric shapes, with San Francisco as a reference. The origin of this series was influenced by the global pandemic that started in 2020 due to Covid-19, which has changed people's lives. The ensuing lockdown, finding myself alone in a foreign land, and facing the pressures of language all had me experiencing great difficulty. After a depression, I started to cheer up again and tried to find hope in painting.
San Francisco is the city where I came to study art. The city went through a prosperous period that I witnessed gradually become more desolate under the influence of the epidemic, and now I am watching it slowly recover. I have a particular emotional connection to this city based on spending different times with it. Wanting to take myself out of difficult situations, I devised a new creation system and decided to recreate a new city on canvas and reinvent myself this way.
When making each painting, I choose representative places with San Francisco and inspirations around my life as themes, then walk around the scene in the city, take pictures, and feel the current atmosphere. I then go back to the studio, draw the inspiration in my brain into a design, experiment with different colors, then paint on the canvas. First, I used the tool to sketch on the canvas. Next, I use the hand-painted method when painting oil paints. I believe this way is more painterly and can bring life to the painting.
In the use of media, I choose oil painting. The smooth surface and thick unique oil properties produce many different levels of texture and perception in the picture. Through such a presentation, I hope to create a sense of three-dimensionality for geometric shapes on a flat surface. I work on canvases that are about 30x30 or 30x40 inches. Through the transformation of design, the recombination and arrangement of geometric shapes, they once again piece together a new city.
The concept of Geometric City refers to my playground, which reinterprets the city of San Francisco through my perspective. It has accompanied me through the difficult time of the pandemic and will continue in my creative life in the future. There are no people in the painting at the beginning, conveying my life alone in the big empty city. In the artwork in the second half of 2022, I began to add human-related representations, such as connected houses and city maps, which also represented the gradual recovery in the post-pandemic period.
San Francisco is the city where I came to study art. The city went through a prosperous period that I witnessed gradually become more desolate under the influence of the epidemic, and now I am watching it slowly recover. I have a particular emotional connection to this city based on spending different times with it. Wanting to take myself out of difficult situations, I devised a new creation system and decided to recreate a new city on canvas and reinvent myself this way.
When making each painting, I choose representative places with San Francisco and inspirations around my life as themes, then walk around the scene in the city, take pictures, and feel the current atmosphere. I then go back to the studio, draw the inspiration in my brain into a design, experiment with different colors, then paint on the canvas. First, I used the tool to sketch on the canvas. Next, I use the hand-painted method when painting oil paints. I believe this way is more painterly and can bring life to the painting.
In the use of media, I choose oil painting. The smooth surface and thick unique oil properties produce many different levels of texture and perception in the picture. Through such a presentation, I hope to create a sense of three-dimensionality for geometric shapes on a flat surface. I work on canvases that are about 30x30 or 30x40 inches. Through the transformation of design, the recombination and arrangement of geometric shapes, they once again piece together a new city.
The concept of Geometric City refers to my playground, which reinterprets the city of San Francisco through my perspective. It has accompanied me through the difficult time of the pandemic and will continue in my creative life in the future. There are no people in the painting at the beginning, conveying my life alone in the big empty city. In the artwork in the second half of 2022, I began to add human-related representations, such as connected houses and city maps, which also represented the gradual recovery in the post-pandemic period.