Upa
Ke-Hsuan Chen



Loss Is Pink Blue and Green
Fantasy Geology
Silent Stripes
How To Write Dao
From Rage To Ecstasy
DieShui
Ripples
Long Story Short
Floating Over the City
Reverie and Leisure
Tilted

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How To Write DAO (2022-Ongoing)

Through reading the Dao De Jing, language is loosened and dissolved, translated through material to foreground abstraction and reveal a poetics beyond expression








Waterfall, 2022
Stoneware, sand, beads
50 x 220 cm
Secular and Sight, 2022
Stoneware, glaze, charcoal, and ink
20 x 14 x 3 cm
Journal of a Solitude, 2022
Stoneware, underglaze, glaze, and ink
19 x 14 cm
The Scenery of Water, 2022
Stoneware, sand, glaze, and ink
29 x 25 x 25 cm
Fence, 2022
Oil, acrylic, oil pastel, and charcoal on linen

48 x 36.5 cm 
Mirage, 2022
Oil on linen
27 x 22 cm
Coincidences, 2022
Stoneware, glaze, and ink
24 x 18.5 x 7 cm

Jade, 2022
Stoneware, sand, and glaze
27 x 27.5 x 7 cm
WEB, 2022
Oil, ink on canvas
15 x 22.5 cm
Write DAO, 2022
Stoneware, glaze
65 x 55 x 45 cm
 
Castle, 2022
Oil, acrylic, ink on linen
48.5 x 19 cm
Wall, 2022
Stoneware, glaze, and ink
22 x 17 cm
These Words Mean Nothing to Snails, 2023
Oil, acrylic, charcoal, and oil pastel on canvas
150 x 110 cm