The Binary Opposition
The two painting modes I have been working with, abstraction and representation, are essential to all painters. The two modes seems to be mutually exclusive and polarising each other. However, in this project, I treated the two painting modes as a binary pair. As in every structure suggested by Structuralism, the binary pair is essential to the structure and its meanings, without each other the structure will collapse. So that the function of the binary pair is not only validating each other but also rationalise the meaning of the structure itself. Therefore, it is only natural that they co-existed within the same structure - my structure of paintings.
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