Mediums are often portrayed as a silent voice, yet they are part of the essential roles in all creative forms. In art, mediums hold a strong relationship with artists’ sense of touch as it is created. During the process of creating, the most intimate moment between an artist and his or her art medium is revealed through touch. However, often this relationship between the artist and the artwork cannot be passed along to the audience and most of the time people can only
experience art in silence.

In my art practice, I use mediums that have a strong relationship with people’s creative art productions: books, crayons, coloured pencils, paper, and acrylic paint. This is intended to portray the awareness of mediums as themselves through a sense of touch and lead the audience to reconsider the relationship among mediums, creators, and audience. The art pieces are as accessible for touching as the mediums being experienced initially by the artist.

I believe that the messages of mediums /ideas/concept cannot be received fully by sense of sight alone. Many hidden characteristics can only be unfolded by other human senses. I would like to invite my audience to explore the experience and interact with my artwork by using sense of touch. The experience of art provides more feelings and understandings when it has a multi-sensory approach.
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