Liminal Space II
"Art is a vehicle to express the intangible, making visible the invisible energies around and within us." – Gina Choy
Created by weaving traditional Chinese painting techniques and philosophy through a Western medium, this collection unites the artist’s academic training across historical fine art traditions.
Painted in oils on exquisitely woven, twice-sized Belgian linen, this body of work completes the Liminal Space series. Its prelude was painted in ink and pigment on rice paper and served as a study for this collection.
Each work reflects the aesthetics of meticulous calligraphic mark-making and the gestural immediacy of intuitive responses characteristic of Chinese painting. At the same time, they lean toward abstraction, expressing the ephemeral experience of the natural world.
By applying an Eastern methodology to Western materials, the artist cultivated a somatic savouring of the process, entering a profound state of flow. These images, therefore, stand as both artefacts of painting as meditation and reflections of the aesthetic beauty of nature.
This significant body of work was celebrated in a solo exhibition at OneSpace Gallery in Brisbane, Australia (2017) and warmly reviewed by Professor Dong Ya, Head of the School of Art and Architecture at Tianjin University, China. It was also published in the TAASA Review (Vol. 28, No. 4).
The majority of these paintings were destroyed in the 2020 floods, and a few were reluctantly painted over to make way for new works. Of the two surviving pieces still in the artist’s possession, one will be gifted to the patron of its NFT counterpart (to be revealed to the collector after its acquisition).
