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Jiahui Zhang:

Remember a Place Not Here
 
Jiahui Zhang
Media Arts & Sciences and Neuroscience major
 

As a scientist and artist, I love to grapple with the scale and vastness of the human experience. Inspired by science fiction, I recontextualize biological phenomena and how they have informed my views on humanity's memory and relationship to one another through drawing and watercolor. The immediacy of drawing and painting in two dimensions speaks to me as the most direct expression of my craft; it invokes the rush of recording and collecting fleeting things, the humility of knowing not all can be captured.

 
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Dog-eared
watercolor and colored pencil on paper
 
The Zebra (斑马)
colored pencil, book board, string

all work in the Jewett Gallery

 
two vertical works; at left a vertical stack of 5 square paintings, increasingly cut and curled from top to bottom; at right, hanging forms bent into curled arabesques     
 
In my work, Dog-eared, I play with the two-dimensional world of paper, forming it into the third dimension through ripples and folds, evoking the cyclical nature of life. Similar to a thoroughly loved book, the works take on a life of their own as time passes. It is an artwork growing out of itself, escaping its home dimensions, and aching for me.
 
 
looking steeply up at series of organicly abstract paintings, variously cut and curled
 
 
close up view of cut and curled photographs
 
 
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