Jay Ho

The gentle indifference of the world constitutes our freedom. The abstract patterns I work with reminds one with nature — a grandeur against mankind’s ephemerality. 

 

Inspired by existentialist school of thought, to act and do is an affirmation of individuality and existence. My paintings are unplanned, allowing for accidents to bring it to different directions.

My paintings are inclined to the themes of the sublime and the infinite through the use of industrial synthetics. I embrace chance and randomness as part of my concept and process. They reflect the organic and encapsulates the micro and macro of the natural world. In the sense, my works also deal with creation, destruction and existence.

 

American Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau argues that “we must approach the world as “nature looking into nature,” aware of the relation between the form of our own perception and what we are able to perceive” To find ones personal purpose one has to look into himself, and immersing in nature is one such platform to do so.

 

The human life is limited and to be working around the theme of the sublime is a strong mediating process from the human condition, especially in the current era of outsourcing our lives. By investigating space, colour, light, and vision, I hope audiences can reconsider their relationship to the outside world and to examine our inner selves.