ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Spirit-resonance and Life-movement is the initial essence of my art sense. I lost it, but now it is coming back after a full eighteen years. I feel that when bad things happen, they are always somehow accompanied by something somewhat positive. Is that true? I want to get a firm answer, even though I know it’s impossible to have one because things are always ambivalent. Just as in Laozi’s Tao Te Ching: “As a thing, the way is Indistinct, elusive. How elusive, how indistinct! Within it is an image. How indistinct and how elusive! Within it is a substance.” The photographs I’m creating have variable perceptions underlying the individual’s experiences. Someone may read, understand, and comprehend them specifically, while others might be speculative.

I was trained in Naturalism and personally rejected nonrepresentational art. Now, I’ve taken the opposite approach, because abstractionism had made me experience much more than before. There is no tangible subject in my photographs. The “Image” is the essence of the light. For another, the light is not only the unique element in my photographs but also the indispensable element of photography. The “Image” created from the energy in the photo is all generated by Spirit-resonance; And the “Substance” is a procedure, which the energy implements into a picture that acquires everything from nothing. My brushwork in light painting sometimes goes quickly, sometimes goes slowly, goes mildly and goes strongly, goes stably and goes intermittently, according to how I manage my Qi. The Yun is the surplus which is endless imagination out of the photo, and it endows the photograph with vast room for contemplation.

Spirit-resonance and Life-movement is crucial to my art. I believe that I can apply them to my viewpoint, and combine multiple thoughts from China and the West.

Type: Photogram, 14'' x 11''

AUTHOR
Zhou Peng was born in Shanghai, China 1983, now lives and works in the U.S and China. His artistic works started with ancient philosophies, and sought the source of commonalities from the multiply civilizations based on multiculturalism, and integrated his own experiences. Making the arts by Photography and Mixed media, he gradually creates a unique abstraction art style.

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