Something about my art

Sometime early last year, I began on a journey with my art that has evolved into me coming face-to-face with my original and enduring love with pure mathematics. My love for art and mathematics has become one. It is a turning point in my life as the two protagonists conspire to erupt my passions. First signs of this manifested itself when I joined ranks with Donna Ong and Chng Nai Wee in my last exhibition to wrestle with chaos theory.On Sunday the 17th of Dec ( day after tomorrow) I reveal to the public for the first time the sketches and the preparatory drawings that led to this exhibition.

With this exhibition of sketches and drawings on the 17th, I invite my audience to join me to view not only sketches from my last exhibition, but work-in-progress(WIP) for a future major solo exhibition of paintings in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia slated for March next year. As an attempt to develop an active discourse around my art, I intend to invite the public into the inner sanctums of my thoughts and the work that I produce as a result as I prepare for my coming solo. I will have at least one other exhibition of WIP, before March 2007. It is my attempt to have an open studio without the open studio. You can say I am going 'out' to my audience rather than inviting them 'in'.

A little about my recent projects:

Mathematical equations are beautiful to me, eg, the equation for the phenomena called entanglement is by itself a beautiful, neat and simple equation. A mathematician once said – “ Despite the objectivity that has no parallel in the world of art, the motivation and standards of creative mathematics are more like those of art than science. “ For my PhD in number theory in the past, the beauty of a mathematical schematic or a proof was an important part of the proof. There was no place for ugly mathematics. I explore this in many ways in my art. I do this fir instance by constructing a structure of 'loose fitting' mathematics, like say the way poetry is to reality, around the lines, the planes and the facets that I sketch to construct shapes and forms. I use sequences, progressions, harmonic analyses and even go as far as applying lessons learnt in the difficult but beautiful and special theory of relativity. In other words, I am using whatever tools I have at hand for analysis and as a narrative of my work. And in the process, I develop art that kind of looks half art and half mathematical schematics. It is at least interesting to me.