i do it my way

I do it my way
4 seasons: faces and symbols



Is there a relation between chinese traditional and contemporary art?
A difference between actual chinese and western art, beside different faces?

I treated a very traditional chinese subject: The four seasons; the circle of life from a western contemporary view….in my way.



Not able to read chinese characters I created my own symbols:
1- an upgoing raindrop for spring: birth and growing up
2- a circle for summer: youth, studies, start of professional life
3- a triangle for autumn: achievment
4- a cross for winter: retirement, end of life(death)

these symbols are used in each part of the installation.

Scenes of childhood, youth and studies, professional and family life, retirement in the right part..

Using pictures of asian and european people I took in europe as in asia, the fact of hiding the surroundings and circumstances of life, makes it difficult to guess where the represented persons are staying..it could be in both places: a normal effect of globalization.Whether in contemporary art as in architecture and daily life.
original big cultural differences disappear. But the relations between the attachment to tradition and modern life subsists.
Architectural elements( skyscrapers are the symbols of modern china) built of chinese and western characters grow up during the first seasons to scroll down in winter again-also architecture and buildings have a lifetime.
A mix of faces, arranged in the form of my symbols, floating through the room and mirrors occupy the left part. The reflected faces of visitors become a part of the installation.

Both parts are hold together by the traditional chinese symbol: a dragon build of chinese and western faces.



(original chinese paintings by xiâo fù (xian)