Mental Scaffold

 

 

Mental scaffold is a painting that starts from the canvas as its support.

The history of the canvas, continuing since the 14th century, has boiled down to the combination of a wooden frame and canvas fabric, becoming a symbolic object. As the history of fine art progresses and the boundaries of media break down, the sign inherent in the canvas still remain vivid. Among them, commercial canvas stands out as a ubiquitous product, distributed from general stores to specialised art shops. I believe that commercial canvas, as a medium, encapsulates the past, present, and future, demonstrating a flat contemporaneity.

 

After the post-COVID era, Atemporality of retro and simulacra has eroded the present.  The flattened retro landscapes, blending past and present timelines, persist as ghosts, living in the current moment. Those present entities, clad in ghostly garments, gradually fade into obscurity. The physique's framework accompanies the mind’s framework.

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I attempt to experiment that diversifies by merging the flat medium of canvas with the flat self drifting in the infinite variations of the database era.

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