$1,000 Talent Competition

"The Return of the Octopus" is a screenprint done in 2010, over a pre-worked paper. It is a print using an octopus mylar from a previous work-- hence the "Return".

Incredible life size soma cast , a 3D framed sculpture showing just the beauty and passion for our art work. Enjoy!

This is a acrylic painting of a sunset (22x28".

24in x 48in, Oils, 2009 The eye test and the imaginary machine.

My arguments, for this piece, is both experimental and traditional cultural values, which I am visually scrutinizing; such as wabi-sabi represents non-art, but there is a strong aesthetic sense in its ingenuity and deftness. When I started using non-art form of sabi, or low-art, such as sawing, cutting and stitching, I looked toward the Japanese folk houses, built with organic materials, which were only available to farmers who lived in poverty. Sabi was found in ever household, in caring for their old houses, ancient fields and landscapes to prolong or sustain the farmers lives. Contemporary lifestyle in our concrete cities, on the contrary, represents the loss of memory, thus the loss of history; draining color and sound. And yet, when confronted by the neglect of history and a vanished past, and once again reminded of that past, humans suffer war and poverty. The entwining and complicated in this piece, I anticipate, acts as an agent, letting the past peek through our world.

Guitar surrounded by nature in graphite.

Acrylic Paint and Mixed Media Collage (72x48)

An interpretive dream and pain piece done in graphite and conte.

This has a specific formula that generates it that I discovered.

A sculpture piece: Edible white chocolate teeth in a candy box. The irony lies in the fact that your teeth will actually get rotten from eating them. The process: A model of a tooth was made in the 3d program Maya and then printed out with rapid prototyping.I then made a food grade silicone mold with the tooth. Each mold was filled with ghiradelli white chocolate, cooled, then painted with food coloring. Please see more images at www.flickr.com/moonjelly

Oils,30 in x 40 in, 2010 The second painting to my Skype/Webcam series. This is a portrait captured during an technical interference due to connections on a Skype chat. I'm fascinated by technology's faults in human communication. Disruption occured for a brief and fleeting second and then captured on screen by chance.

I work on installations mixing sculptures, paintings and drawings. This is my last installation. You can see acrylic paintings, porcelaine and wax sculptures with wood, matches and many more medium.

For this piece, I incorporated the notion of the spectacle as illustrated in Guy Debord essay, ?The Society of the Spectacle (1968).? The iconic spectacle, for some viewers here, might seem illicit. I interpret/connect this to Debord's?monopolization of the realm of appearance? and further suggest the analeptic effect of a space for the holy saints' postmortem leavings, not as a sanctuary, but as a place to fear. This unnerving juxtaposition might give rise to an impression of repulsive agitation, if not outright rejection, but beyond initial apprehension, there are sediments of the forgotten past. This examination of the spectacle of the past is to call us out on our collective apathy surrounding current events and amnesia surrounding historical ones.

Sorry, I enter the same piece, but I feel I need to show all sides of the sculpture.

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