“Blessings” is the title of a  project I conducted between the year 2010 and 2017.  It is composed of three parts, and each part employs a different medium; the first being a series of etching, the second an installation of silk-screened patterns on paper, and an the third an artist book.

The abstract-scapes are visual metaphors that reflects my inner landscape as I was going through pregnancy, giving birth to, and raising an infant.

The key word is a tension—both lived and visually represented—that is best explained in a form of a question: :

Is it the same or different creative energy that enables me to do “mothering” and “art making?” How much does a woman have to lose to be a mother? Can I be a successful artist and a mother?

The tensions-questions then were translated into a visual tension animated by colors and movement of shapes.

Blessings II is a study of applying colors to tessellation. The installation consists of sheets of double-sided paper tiles tessellated in a three dimensional space. Each tile has crosshatched-line-patterns on one side and color wash on the opposite side. Line patterns are printed in three layers of different colors using screen printing. A total of 144 tiles display 144 different combinations of color. Each tile is made of four octagonal shapes, which can also be viewed as the projection of a hyper cube (a four dimensional cube.)

On the other side of the paper I coat the surface with color wash. Many layers of thin washes were applied to achieve a desired color. I used soy emulsion as a binding medium for dry pigments, as it gives a subtle warmth to the colors. By suspending pigments in multiple transparent layers I can make rich and deep colors. This technique allows me to create a range of colors gradually shifting in chromatic and achromatic values with only four pigments, which are black, yellow, magenta, and cyan.