Cheng Yan Tan



"I always have a strongly desire, that is to die totally, this is not a physical death, it is the death of the limitation of my mind. When I dead in this situation, my desire became bigger and bigger,  they surrounded me deeply.

I am lying on the table, my head was deeply hided inside my arms, I wanted to disappear totally, I found I was not suitable to this world any more, the ‘self’ was searching for another space to live, an illusion, which is a reality. The body started moving, my hand started shaking,the eyes were rapaciously searching for the imagines to satisfied with the desire. The imagines was breathing,  they became some shapes, some colors, some relationships, but, what I saw is far beyond these languages, what I saw is an ‘waking up.’ Something was waking up , they started splitting up, propagating, mutating, they were jumping and shining, eager to die and renascent. They are the states of nature, unmerciful, intense, endless.

What I got from this natural state ? Imagines.
No, it is more than imagines.
they are the organisms living inside the gap of time,with the void body,
they lying there, waiting to be connected by the viewers.
They are the elements of the universe, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life. Their movement was caused by the flowing power of the universe. "

I made them, observing them, and write down my observation to my blog :
http://tanchengyan.wordpress.com/

In my work, I imagine I am the visional biologist, using my sensation to do my experiment with  my eye-my-memory-my mind,-my identity-my body. Mixing them, breaking them up, and translate them into the abstractive attention, in order to create an open mind space to the viewers.

ChengYan Tan
2010.5


http://tanchengyan.weebly.com/