SKETCH & RESHAPE

Sketching is always the first step of my process. It is one of the best ways to refine ideas and combine elements. I like drawing on an informal poor-quality yellowish paper, which reminds me of the excitement and stimulation from my childhood drawings that I made in textbooks in class, fast, without any sense of consequence.

A sketch is light, an image without the gravity a sculpture has. Sculptures and viewers under gravity’s influence are brought toward one another. When viewers walk to sculptures, they can feel the energy flowing between them. I can sense an invisible floating line connecting me with the sculptures, which I might not usually see from the image.

I reshape elements by using visual memories. I believe visual memories don’t document every detail of an object but highlight certain features of it. For example, when I find an interesting shape for the first time, I always scan it in my brain; as time goes by, there is just the main feature of the object that still lingers in my memory. Several shapes are confused or glued together by memory error. Then I create sculptures combined of several shapes; solid shapes interact with each other in the air, which composes rhythmic structures.