Emily Wang Studio - Daybook

Eye and Mind

Emily Wang — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:25:20 +0000

An artist who thinks with eyes thinks through his/her body and expression-medium, which shapes his/her experience and conceptual making of the world in which meaning and value live and grow. Mind is an embodied phenomenon.

Thoughts on Memory

Emily Wang — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:57:34 +0000

Like a photographer and a painter, I “see” the totality of my thought emerges out of the invisible moving hands of threads that bestow meaning to the elements of a memory - that smile, this frown or that gaze – through their inter-spatial relationship within the woven structure.

A Lesson from the Master

Emily Wang — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:21:47 +0000

As interesting as many contemporary artists' works appear to me, I find it common to today's art practice that many photographic works are too slick or too polished that there's a general family resemblance among different artists' works. Most works don't address their strength through integrated...

On Beauty

Emily Wang — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:56:00 +0000

I was asked in a recent class to talk about my “personal” definition of beauty. Contrary to the requested personal, particular and subjective definition, below is my quest of a definition of “beauty” that is not subject to the particular or the relative. The attempt to...