The landscapes are inspired by East Asian landscape painting and a book Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing by René Daumal. The sceneries are depictions of landscapes created spontaneously on creased paper. In a poetic sense, the mind wanders freely on the surface as the brush strokes and ink washes draw out forms and narration from the shapes on the empty paper. Looking from a more cognitive viewpoint, it is an occurrence of pareidolia, seeing things in random patterns. What is made visible are the artist’s own internalized pictures of mountains – representations of mountains that have been impressed into the artist’s mind by seeing real mountains and various pictures of mountain ranges throughout their life.

The sceneries also evoke an apocalyptic feeling: volcanoes erupt, ice caps melt, a dark cloud covers the earth, celestial bodies take ominous forms. Obviously, there is an ongoing global catastrophe in question. It could be asked whether these are cataclysmic psychic events or reflections on the state of our world. Literally, everything seems to be on fire.