In this 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘬 series, I am trying to better understand on painting through sculptural experience while translating 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘣𝘺 series into three dimensions. I overlay paint on somebody's face to make it look like nobody, and recreate it as a modern mummy portrait that anybody can become. This series consists of only 99 works. And all works become NFTs and are minted with only five editions.

The 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘬 project aims to translate the Passersby project of the past ten years into digital sculptures.

The 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘣𝘺 series, also shown in my recent solo exhibition, was a project in which I gazed at the faces of individuals I have denominated as the passersby, recorded the fleeting afterimages into drawings, and later deconstructed the drawings and translated them into paintings.

The 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘬 series, a project in which I have associated the paintings to sculptures and created a genealogy, was inspired by the symbolism of “imago” in Pliny the Elder’s works as identified by Georges Didi-Huberman, French philosopher and art historian.

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