Medusa

RESEARCH BACKGROUND
The research in my art practice, which is primarily painting based, but multi-disciplinary in expression, is concerned with the spaces between unconsidered and recognized historical art motifs discovered in the everyday noticing of familiar objects as time passes and how that contributes to the contexualisation of a personal identity in a social realm.
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION
The artwork seeks to contribute identifying a heightened, almost surreal, sense of looking at the world that may occur if one is aware of the history of art and its relationship to mythology. All my art research is the result of the proposition that there exists an integration of complex personal, geographic, societal and historical identities that occur when we choose to look at anything, including art.
RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE
The inclusion of this painting by the committee in this exhibition of 37 artists, selected fom 400 entries, was important in that by it's very inclusion it became part of the aim of the exhibition, as expressed in the press statement, which was to include art through which the viewer is left to find their own place within a complex complex narrative and to examine the nature of the unconscious.

研究背景（RESEARCH BACKGROUND）
本研究植根于以绘画为核心、多媒介表达的艺术实践，旨在探讨随时间流逝，在日常观照熟悉物象时所发现的、介于未被留意与已被认知的历史艺术母题（historical art motifs）之间的模糊地带，以及该地带如何助力个体身份在社会场域中的语境化（contextualisation）建构。
研究贡献（RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION）
本艺术创作旨在助力构建一种经过强化、近乎超现实（surreal）的观世感知——这种感知诞生于个体对艺术史及其与神话之关联的认知。本项全部艺术研究均基于如下命题：当我们主动观照包括艺术在内的任何事物时，便会催生复杂的个人、地域、社会与历史身份的融合，本研究正是该命题的实践成果。
研究意义（RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE）
本次展览从400份投稿中遴选出37位艺术家的作品参展，而本画作经委员会纳入此次展览，其入选具备重要意义：正如展览新闻稿所述，本次展览的核心宗旨是通过参展艺术作品，让观者得以在繁复交错的叙事中自主探寻自身定位，并审视无意识的本质；而本画作的入选本身便成为了该宗旨的具象组成部分。