Research: Li Qing- Upturned Eaves, Brilliant City

 Li Qing

Neighbor's Window: Upturned Eaves , 2018

Wood, Plexiglas, oil, and aluminium-plastic panel

59 1/2 x 46 5/8 x 4 3/8 inches (151 x 118.5 x 11 cm)

Li Qing’s work in this collection is something that resonated heavily with my work. Upon seeing her method of conveying meaning, and, thematically to her work, not conveying meaning, I more confidently realised the place the marbles had it my work. 

‘As Li explains in a recent interview in TimeOut Hong Kong, “Window is about the relationship between the painting and the viewer’s perception.”’

Much like the marbles in my work represent the context missing from just perceiving things, Qing sees the window itself and her obscurity of its clarity, as this same gap in perception. I remember fighting myself in my head, as to weather this defining of the unknown was even necessary to my works message, but this work makes the argument that because the unknown is often the nature of the things pushing me to make the art, that what is missing is as much a part of the art as the tangible parts of the message. 

I had been gradually working limited pieces of context onto the marbling in the windows of the building, seeing this work made me make sure to integrate it more. Which I did by drawing miscellaneous items in the windows of some of the buildings.