This is a note I did at the beginning of my last quater at SCAD; at that time I was searching for an innovative way to do watercolor. I focused a lot on tring to figure out a different format of presenting watercolor, since watercolor alomost always needs frames and mat to be presented. I want to challenge this kind of reality and I don’t want to be contained by the frames, especially when the frames can cost as much as the painting itself. I don’t think that’s fair to any emerging artists. Young artists still haven’t establish their names in the big art world, and therefore can have their arts to meet up the price of the frame that is measured the same way with other artists.
Therefore, I came up with the solution as depicted on the note; the idea is to use found wood bords as frames. I wanted to find bords that have some evidence of erosion of time with distinct textures on the surface, then put them around a bought, floating frame from Wal-Malt.
After that, I would do two separate groups of Mint Ivy: one being restricted inside of Wal-Mart frame and one growing freely on the found bords…This wass meant to be the continuation of the Mint Ivy work I did at the end of last year…
The plan was never executed though….as the Winter quarter went by, I started to focus more on the exploration of my branch series, and hence came abstract works such as The Tree With Human spirit and Living and Non-Living.
[tags] art, watercolor, insight, artist journal, Joseph Chiang, paining [/tags]
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