Untitled (Insomnia)
In this series of drawings, I am materialising and transforming the affects evoked by the depression, numbness and suffocation in the illusional patterns that extruded in my mind and body during bouts of insomnia. My drawings are the ‘bloc of sensation’, I use ‘subjective abstraction’ to express the inexpressible and fugitive experiences that occur during sleeplessness, and communicate them to the viewer through extraordinary intricate drawings which evoke intensity, strangeness, and esoteric feelings, immerse and extract jumble of thoughts and imaginations from their minds. Pattern is not just a visual image, but it is a powerful means that has the ability to alter feelings and experience in the mind and body.
It is also a self-therapy to confront my fear to insomnia, therefore, I am immerging myself into an experience of sensing the elapse of time in my body and mind during the long duration process of drawing repetitive shapes, and guides them to form into flows and movements. The flows are registering the internal pulses of my feelings in the body and mind, prevents me from being rigid and numb in the boredom, and keeps me changing my perspectives between zooming in to the shapes and zooming out to the movements. I have discovered the relationship between the mind and the muscles, and the involvement of both the consciousness and unconsciousness layers are distinguished in the action of drawing.
