Afterlife

A series of three collages on paper, cut and glued.

These three analog paper works explore my fascination with structured noise, and the order of Li, a concept found in neo-confucianism Chinese philosophy used in taoism to depict the underlying reason and order of nature expressed in its organic forms. Li is way of describing the structure of flow found in the natural world as compared to human's predominantly rectilinear forms. These three works combine energies into floating forms and were the culmination of my explorations into the curatorial artform of magazine collage. Many of the source materials were National Geographics, whose warm toned faded color aesthetic has always spoken to me.