My watershed year was 2003, when I started my Apocalypse Series of
paintings and drawings, when the US was poised to invade Iraq and I made
several dark paintings such as "The Triumph of Saint George". I also
created my best work so far, "Grandma", which was simple, elegant, darkly beautiful yet foreboding. Several of these paintings have been published by various magazines and some are to be published.
Below is the random selection of three paintings from the group:
My watershed year was 2003, when I started my Apocalypse Series of paintings and drawings, when the US was poised to invade Iraq and I made several dark paintings such as "The Triumph of Saint George".
In 2004 and 2005, I continued my effort but 2004 was an obvious recovering year, from deep emotions and 2005 was the year I tried to function as a "normal" person, less disturbed and angry. My works were less disturbing and less controversial, with more resigned sadness:
Continuing my archiving practice, I'm posting video recapitulations of paintings I completed in 2006 through 2008, in three videos below.
Those three years were years of experimenting and re-aligning, after several intense years of creativity, fueled by the emotions stirred up by the dark time and reality - the period George W. Bush invaded Iraq and suppressed civil liberty at home, a period and political situation reminded me cruelly of the repressive China I fled from. When emotions had been dulled by time, I needed to rejuvenate myself and rekindle my creative fire. Those three years were such period of the soul-searching and these three videos documented that journey:
2012 was a very difficult year for me, full of tragedy and sadness and my art make sometimes had to be pushed back and I was only manage to finish small canvasses - several larger, more ambitious one took much more patience and stamina than I was able to muster last year.
Another two noteworthy portraits I made last year both had religious touches - Heavenwards and Icon, made at the beginning and end of the tumultous
year.
Below is a video presentation of the paintings I created in 2012:
2011 was a reflection time for me. I spent much energy in learning and thinking, focusing on the future steps I was to take in order to improve myself as an artist and to facilitate my career.
The paintings I created last year reflected this somewhat halting yet probing directions. I continued to explore spatial relations and patterns and experimented several abstract pieces. Near the end of the year, I grew tired of the experiment and took solace by working on some more representative or lyric piece, concluding with a portrait, Pierce, which I am rather happy with.
Below is a video presentation of the paintings I created last year:
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