My art life started from Blueprint!
Since 2000, I have started to develop a series of BLUEPRINT artwork. The concepts of the creation were about dispersion and combination, individuals and groups and also the city and the nature. The process of creation was from small individual, deconstruction and reconstruction; complete artwork composed of numerous individuals. “The creation of one artwork for a lifetime” is to find a way of connection, and different world become ONE. This is the process of idealizing the world and building up a utopia – a picture of oneself and the world,
Thought makes the world a picture. This is a picture which is describable and controllable. This is a process of rationalizing the world and pursuing the pleasure of grasping the world.
“The Tower of Babel” - the first imagination of Blueprint - represents a concentration of energy. The concentration of beliefs forms a religion; the concentration of resources forms a government; the concentration of structure forms a tower. This is the set up of a utopia under rationalism. It builds a tower to get on for the subject. Differentiation, positioning, storage and use are the main texture of the urban structure; they are also the structure of “the Tower of Babel”.
Another imagination of BLUEPRINT is the background of “the Tower of Babel” - “the Grassland” which is a vast and natural space that embraces “the Tower of Babel”. This is another imagination of unity: the nature embraces all creation and is also the origin of all creation. “The Tower of Babel” brings an entrance to the modern world; “the Grassland” opens the road of returning to the origin of the world.
Opposite to the Tower of Babel, “a Mountain” is another end of the Grassland. If the Tower of Babel is the accumulation of structure, it can be deconstructed and extended on the Grassland. Going up a mountain is the process of elimination and simplification. It can be said as a journey back home, from city landscape to the Grassland. Going up a mountain and returning to the origin of self.
The creation process of Blueprint is basically divided into the following stages:
1. The Grassland – recording the revelation of nature, and recalling Monogolian grassland
2. The Babel – introspecting religion, exploring the relationship between the Creator and Existence
3. The Light in Darkness – entering into the grassland of inner mind to encounter with the inner light
4. The Origin – recalling original and simple life, accusing the complicated but modern era, and entering into this complication to experience the lost.
Finally, “In One” is an important element of Blueprint, which is expecting the future path of art. The past, the present, the future, all is put together to form Blueprint.
