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Xiaowei Chen

Pink Chrysanthemums ink on paper 5 x 3	Pain ink on paper 5 x 3	Lotus ink on paper 5 x 3
All of Us ink on paper 5 x 3	Beginning of a Dream ink on paper 5 x 3	Desire ink on paper 5 x 3
Tree in Cemetary ink on paper 3 x 5	9 Months and 10 Days ink on paper 30 x 20	Wan is Over ink on paper 10 x 15

ARTIST STATEMENT

Tasting salty teardrops is to me as seeing a diamond-embedded frog resting on a dried tree branch. Viewing a tense expression in a mirror is to me as seeing countless silkworms contorting their bodies. A touch of happiness or sorrow is to me like a strong liquor throwing off its scent. The power of love and death is to me like a red ivy climbing off a plaster vase decorated with roses....

Images of imagination are not remote from that of actual vision. What is remote is the our expression in language from precision and perfection, an ideal which I do not possess. So I have chosen simple tools to record my immediate sensations. Doing so I try to discover what lies within that might be more real and true.

Viewing

ink on paper

3" x 20"

I found it interesting that people often tend to one theme in a period. In painting the theme can be vague. But as time passes, the theme becomes more obvious. I produced this series of work in 2008 when I was very interested in how the body appearance and internal organs react to events. From body expression we can hardly judge what is going through one’s mind. The internal organs, on the other hand, may reveal one’s real reactions more directly. Through these drawings I tried to explain this and to gain deeper understanding of the way humans think.