Dina Chang's Painting II Manifesto: What do I want to explore?

·      PAINT (as a material, as a being)

o   How much can I manipulate before paint’s qualities take over?

§  Color

§  Saturation (How much acrylic I mix into the pouring medium)

§  Technique (How I mix the acrylic into the pouring medium)

·      Keep it swirled (with the palette knife, suspended in the medium)

o   Translucent

·      Mix it completely (by shaking the jar of paint and medium)

·      TIME

o   The clear pouring medium captures time within its layers

§  Ephemerality

o   I lose control with time

§  Time takes over

§  What I originally draw is not what comes out

·      What is the final product?

§  Time takes over, I lose control

·      LIGHT + INSTALLATION

o   If there is no controlled light, the sunlight that shines through the windows takes control

o   If I can control the light source, do I want it above the plexiglass, so the shadow extends downward

o   If the viewer can control the light source with a flashlight, then every viewer’s experience differs

§  Will they be more able to see the overlapping layers of paint suspended in pouring medium?

o   Shadow

§  Shadow is enhanced the closer the plexiglass is installed on the wall

§   The shadow’s color depends on the saturation and color of the paint

Artist Statement Gemma Gené

Blurry Memories

They say that the biggest change in the past 30 years has been the iphone. Since everyone is carrying a camera in their phone, memory is no longer needed. People take thousands of pictures a year, of every detail of their life that they don’t want to forget. Camera phones are used as part of human memory. We relate to our phones to take pictures of the everyday life things we would forget otherwise. We take pictures and post them for the world to see, and we expect this way they will not be forgotten.

Pictures are no longer a tool to remember special moments like birthdays and trips. They work as a report of every detail of everyday life. They say that when you post a picture on instagram you have 30% more change to forget that moment. Your brain feels like this memory is safe, but chances are, you are not going to review this picture again.

This series of paintings talk about how our memories are recorded by non professional photographers. They are blurry images with filtered colors of memories you don’t need to remember.