Melted Stars (Oscar Chan Yik Long, 2022)
Melted Stars
Drawings by: Oscar Chan Yik Long Bored Wolves, 2022 2022 Edition of 100; 2nd printing of 400 (2024) 16 pages, 14×20 cm, b&w photocopy Published by Bored Wolves as part of the PF25 (Basel+Hong Kong) Hands project In the archive of Ateneum Art Museum, Finland, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland and The Athens Zine Bibliotheque, Athens ISBN 978-83-965968-0-2 |
“I splash ink on paper. Then I follow my hands, letting them do their thing. As I observe the result, my mind searches for a face. From the face I sense a creature. I develop this creature. Really I work with the splash. It’s already decided once the splash is done.”
Zine of astral choreographies and ink-spawned mythologies. Helsinki-based Hong Kong artist Oscar CHAN Yik Long (My Body Is a Reincarnated Population) taps the ecstatically eldritch by splashing ink on paper and then letting the mind-in-his-hand intuit a creature. Rapidly drawing these mythic beings out of the shadows and into the spectacular light, the artist gorgeously renders some wretched ends. |