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2022
What does skateboarding mean to me?
“Liberty” is the first word that comes into mind, which features skateboarding with a similar nature to painting. As Italo Calvino written in Invisible Cities : “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”
Can I say I create a metaphorical pathway toward an abandoned land of collective consciousness?
Street skating can be metaphorically seen as a spacial, non-verbal actions of composing narratives. By observing interactions between city and skaters as another form of Flâneur, I grasp a glimpse of freedom to the same degree as I paint. The dynamic of body synchronized with the movement of hands and brushed on an empty white canvas. It provides me with an utopian-like hypothesis of innumerably potential possibilities, which my given (or you can say undefined) identity can never provide me with.
The Leap of Faith, Oil on canvas, 91*116cm
Conversation under a Bridge, Oil on canvas, 91*116cm
Blade Runners, Oil on canvas, 91*116cmHuman’s minds have the capacity to create fictional memories resourced from information received on a daily basis. The notion of memory has become a white canvas, where our minds are utilized as painting utensils to illustrate fictional and personal narratives. Suddenly the sensation of skating has been layered up and blurred by artificial scenario, one built upon another, like an endless möbius strip. On this surface, there is no place for me to stop and see where I’m actually situated. In terms of there is no longer a border line between movement and stillness/ Fiction and reality, painting and skateboarding have become my one and only testament to clarify and justify my temporary existence.
