Photo credits: Soak

This work continues to explore the mystical aspects of the drawing process (accidental and impermanent manifestations). Change and transience are important in my creative process. I am fascinated with random occurrences, improvisation, and the liberating qualities of non-traditional tools such as toy robots. Using these inventive and playful tools to create eccentric forms or spontaneous arrangements without the constraints of limited visual vocabulary results in works of absolute freedom and honesty. My main goal in using these tools is to surrender authorial control, to release drawing from its enslavement to the artist’s hand, and in some cases to outsmart my own will and intentions. 
 
The title of this work “Till death do us part” is taken from wedding vows stating that the married couple intends to spend the remainder of their lives together and will be parted only by death. In this work, toy robots represent technology. We are so devoted to technology—we cannot bear to part with our mobile phones. The works are created by modified toy robots with drawing tools like sticks, Chinese and western brushes, strips of canvases and wool threads, and Chinese ink during the 'activation' sessions in this exhibition. 
 
The hanging of the traditional Chinese scrolls is unconventional, floating in the air at various heights as opposed to neatly arranged in a straight line against white walls. The way that the scrolls are lit is deliberately against the gallery lighting convention: I have chosen to place LED fluorescent tubes on the floor to light the scrolls from below. A mobile phone with a video on a loop of the toy robots moving and painting completes the installation and reinforces the idea of human’s obsession with technology: mobile phones.