I walk alone in the desert, a gust of wind blew my footprints, no one knows that I have been here before.
In my art, audiences will step into a world that is higher, lower, bigger, or smaller — a world beyond the present one.
Exploring more "possibilities" beyond our original perception is a huge challenge for human beings. When science can no longer answer for us, when the truth is shelved because of the gap, art can play a unique role. Those obscure, esoteric, and hard to explain thoughts, feelings, or experiences are buried in time and space as if they have never existed before. I believe in the energy of consciousness, the divinity of the human, and the rules that lie beneath the surface like Plato's Theory of Form.
My ideas for my works come from randomness. When the idea suddenly appears in my mind, I grab it. I will then sit down and think carefully. Afterward, when language becomes useless, words, poems, and narratives are no longer the mediums that I can use, I will look for the best media to express it. From painting traditional Thangka to working with salt and water, everything in this world can be my tool to execute my ideas.
I was born in a Tibetan Buddhist family, and I've been practicing consciousness through the form of art. I peeled off the shell of religious rituals, and use the core philosophical values of Tibetan Buddhism to nourish my works. I began to explore the metaphysical impalpability beyond the limits of our perception after I discovered that Buddhism has a strong relationship with other scientific disciplines that explain the ‘truth’, such as quantum physics. I was influenced by Takis, who was renowned for his investigation of the gap between art and science. Takis, as an artist who incorporated invisible energies as a fourth-dimensional active element in nature, he converts the intangible magnetic poles into perceptible music in his work Musicale(1977). In his art, he is only a "reteller."
It is a complicated but significant art practice to make mysterious and transcendental feeling become perceptive to audiences, and this is my direction and also my biggest challenge. At the present stage, my works metaphorically describe the concepts in poetic ways. Science can only explain what is in the field of science. Beyond that, I won't stop exploring the intangible that cannot be described by language, words, and formula.
I believe everything in the world is divine. Every single drop of water is holy, every stretch of land is sacred, and I am blessed. I use myself as a tool to tell others how mystical, complicated and magnificent our being and our surrounding is.