Wong Shih Yaw

The starting point of my research project was based on intuition and visual thinking.

I began by using a brush to doodle on paper, layering and juxtaposing brushstrokes, colours, and undefined forms and lines within the picture plane. From these spontaneous marks, I searched for images that emerged and subsequently interpreted and named them.

Throughout the process, I also experimented with collage and mixed-media approaches to doodling, producing a series of works in which the forms were not easily recognisable yet possessed a strong sense of design.

In these works, organic shapes and planes of different textures and colours were forcibly and brutally connected and unified through the use of staples. This method of construction conveyed a heightened sense of anxiety and unease, expressed through both two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms.

As the creative process gradually developed, I began to recognise and experience the inseparable relationship between space and time. I also came to understand that the space and time experienced in everyday life are multiple, shifting, fluid and fragmented.

This awareness and experience further transformed my creative process, allowing increasingly complex layers of space and time to emerge through their uneven juxtaposition. From these coexisting layers within the picture plane, I discovered more images that felt uncontrived, raw and childlike, which ultimately contributed to and enriched my visual world.