Link: 1. Title. Consciousness-Curriculum (CC): A Speculative Workshop
Description and Baseline Canvas Source. Transdisciplinary. Mixed media on newspaper canvas (ink, graphite, and highlighter on archival newsprint). Size. 2’6”x1’8” (each of the 11 canvases).
Part of the Consciousness-Curriculum (CC) series, this work utilizes 7 print editions of The New York Times Opinion sections and other pages as a foundational canvas and research source for an Art-Based Research (ABR) model. And 4 canvases for the relevant text. By layering dense, handwritten analytical remarks, visual mappings, and conceptual cross-examinations over contemporary editorial media, the visual art piece acts as a dialogue and structural critique between mass media narratives and viewer’ consciousness. Digitally and physically developed as an experimental pedagogical tool, the CC series is actively utilized in classroom environments and academic symposia.
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CC-Analytical Framework: From Subject to Object (audio of the Description and Baseline Canvas Source also)
Link: 1. Title. From Subject to Object (SO) 1: It is Only a Matter of Changing One’s Position of Gazing…
Link: 2. Title. From Subject to Object (SO) 2: The Song of the Reed…
Description and Baseline Canvas Source. Constructed with mirrors, bronze, framed inside wooden frame. Size. 2’6”x2ft 6”
The two installations: From Subject to Object (SO) 1 and From Subject to Object (SO) 2 are digital documentation that capture their physical models made of mirrors that visually and audibly explore developmental psychologist Robert Kegan’s constructive-developmental theory. At its core, the piece invites viewers to visualize and experience, physically and digitally, the fundamental “Subject-Object” shifts. Thus, offering the analytical and conceptual lens to make aesthetic sense of the CC project.
It illustrates the psychological transition of moving what is “Subject”—the internal lens through which we blindly experience our socialized reality—into “Object,” transforming it into a structured entity, the SO installation, we can step back from, move from side to side, and critically imagine and evaluate the changing views inside mirrors. Through this process, participants experience and imagine inter-individual or multipolar realities. The physical interplay of mirrors and viewers serves as a direct spatial metaphor for this transformation from Subject to Object. By motivating viewers to confront their own reflections alongside the shifting reflections of the surrounding environment, the SO artworks disrupt default perceptual mindsets and catalyse active psychological self-reflection.