KNUCKLE CONSTRUCT

Charcoal on sugar paper, 2019

size 84.1 x 59.4 cm

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I started to observe my fist and realised  that the elements of the knuckle bones are repeating themselves. So I try to expand that repetition of the structures underneath, folded it out to infinite land-scape without planning the outcome. Again, this landscape just came out on its own. The meaning of the body began to expand into larger area of philosophy as the fist starting to fold out into something else other than itself. This time, each fold reduce the details of the human body, transforming itself in to the body of the landscape of the spine. Shifting its context of what it once was into new type of body

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Likewise, when I start drawing this piece, I felt uncomfortable and uneasy. As an artist that like to plan every steps of the process, I struggle to let thing grows at some point. Yet, as I continue to add details onto the figure, I slowly got back on track. In someways, the process of letting the artwork grow is almost like meditation to me. By the time I continue to expand the structure beneath the skin, I felt more relaxed as it goes and eventually calm in the end, drifting away in the artwork just like in other drawings I did in unit 1.