Jing Zhou
LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
first Buddhist saying,“ all life is sorrowful.” It is because of the constant and endless loss in reality. Personally I see nostalgia as“ half death.”
“ Childhood” and“ Adolescence” are probably the only two paintings that I dealt with my memories. Growing up is a difficult stage in life for many people, specially sensitive beings. By the time when I was able to express my experiences and feelings through my work, I was an adult with a fair understanding of the causes and consequences of my childhood. Therefore, the two paintings are the careful analysis of my emotions. Perhaps by creating the paintings, it was a way for me to let go of the past and move on in life … a ritual for recovering.
You works invite the viewers to a multilayered experience, in which you walk them though a process of deciphering your life journey. This urges the spectatorship to challenge the common way they perceive not only the outside world, but their inner sphere... We are sort of convinced that some informations & ideas are hidden, or even " encrypted " as microscopic grains of sand in the environment we live in, so we need to decipher them. Maybe that one of the roles of an artist could be to