Artists
Photo Credit: NIU Chun-Chiang
SU Wan-Ting
SU Wan-Ting
| Location | USA / Colorado |
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| Residency | Anderson Ranch Arts Center |
| Year of the Grant | 2009 |
Artist Statement:
To me, drawing and painting is a process of creativity. It realizes an artist’s value on life.
Making art is an experiment of premutation and combination of color and form. An artist makes different things in different times, spaces, and settings. To turn from the dullness and emptiness of reality, I attempt to create imaginary things that stray from ordinary life. Therefore, my life is transformed into another mysterious world in which I travel.
I try to uncover the viewpoint that is distant yet originates from reality in drawings/paintings, as well as in heart-felt experiences in the real world. When the colors and lines that come from these feelings and experiences are once again distanced and made real, I realize that they can appear in different settings and realms, endlessly developing themselves. They can be free and autonomous. This idea gives me happiness during the process of drawing/painting, as well as pushes me forward as an artist. The ‘meaningful coincidences’ that occur during the process of creation and in real life become a way for energy to circulate between my work and my mental activities.
I apply the concept of reproduction and rebirth in my work. Through the transformation of materials, life’s energy can be realized in different formats and media. The ceremony of creation is like a never-ending game. As if a circle with a starting point that coincides with its ending point, our lives continue to march towards another deeper circle, abandoning the two-dimensional space and entering an unknown realm in a strong and stable spiral motion. Everything is an artistic practice that comes from the transformation and exchange of mental imageries.
I feel time passing by in the repetitive movement of creation. Drawing and painting allows my past emotions to continuously reappear and be reborn, circling in my mind and composing a dance score of the mind and senses. The whole process is filled with improvisation. It is a process of experimentation that accompanies the meeting of colors and forms.
I believe that when a life ends, something beautiful appears somewhere else in another form in this world. This is a principle regarding the balance of the universe and a principle about the circle of life.
My artist in residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center allowed me to meet a team of arts professionals and experience the full cycle of the arts industry. I met a variety of artists with whom I engaged in artistic exchanges, which influenced my artistic concept, as well as expanded the spectrum of materials I used.