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Kay
H. Lin
Statement (2010)
Abstract painting is like poetry; like music, it flows, with space to imagine. Painting is a silent poem that is seen. Reading a poem or listening to music, a picture often appears. Both poetry and music, especially Baroque music, come out of the same abstract sense for me. The seven basic notes (do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti) are like the seven rainbow colors with few elements that can create much more.
After being an abstract painter for 20 years, I started missing my training in Chinese painting and decided to write poems on my paintings instead of next to them. This different format of painting joins my original culture and mind more closely. Chinese painting started being accompanied with a poem in the Tang Dynasty. This relationship developed deep aesthetic meaning in Chinese painting until Song Dynasty art schools even used a poem as a title to test students for painting.
Both nature and humanity are my art foundations; they are vast and limitless. They give me the time to sense being alive and to live in the circle of life. I study them through the four seasons and with that, I create my painting and the world.
心如詩, 詩如畫;
畫訴情 ,情續事;
事事編織, 無終始末...
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