Light represents looking ahead – the future. Traversing and colliding with light changes the original character and beauty of things. I like light. What I like most is the blink when daylight and sea surface come together and collide with each other. When you sit in the car and close your eyes, although you can’t see anything, you still feel the change of the depth of light on your eyelids. It is the light that calls you again when you close the door to vision. Calling out to you in a soft, low shimmering voice!
Can we see ourselves? Yes, we can. We can see ourselves through the eyes of friends, from our point of view in the world, or along a perfectly straight line. Can we see our whole selves? No. We can just see ourselves in a blink. Many blinks make a stereoscopic us. I am drawing this blink. Every work is one blink, one step. Knowing ourselves is the first step towards piloting our lives, as well as the first step towards knowing the world and human kind.
I want to describe the confusion of mankind. The confusion oscillates between right and wrong, kind and evil. This confusion is an involuntary barrier that cannot be surmounted easily. It is a searching for belief, a discovery filled with both joy and the pain of loss I was thinking
of one person plus another person slowly forming a group of people, and one person with another slowly forming another group, Why the two groups of people’s thoughts, will produce opposition but unlike nature, produce a rainbow.
The place where the red roller rolls, bury all traces before it. Whether it is trying to preserve the memory, or to not give up the past experience. After the decisive red roller is washed, everything has become the past!
This group takes the leap of thought, the associated and disassociated fields, and starts with the smallest element — a leaf knows spring and autumn, a drop of water — and turns it into red and white.
Li Hong was born in Beijing in 1959. She graduated from CAFA, the Central Academy of Fine Art in 1984, in woodblock printing, before migrating to Australia in 1987, where she undertook studies at the then COFA, the College of Fine Art, the University of NSW, and subsequently graduated with a MASTERS of FINE ART Degree from Sydney College of Art in 2007. Li Hong has exhibited throughout Australia, and has been curated into major exhibitions in Beijing and Tibet in China, the Sasaran Arts Festival in Malaysia as well as exhibitions in Hungary and USA. Her work is held in significant collections in both Australia and China.
