I began experimenting with systems of order outside my drawings themselves during a frenzied period of photocopying pages of my sketchbooks and covering my studio walls with these animated enlarged images. The systems of order resolved into complex layering and combining a multitude of linear patterns. Painting and drawing from this strategy opened up infinite composition possibilities. Combined with a random selection method, this process significantly removes the ego from my initial steps in beginning each work of art. The patterns, superimposed and joined, gain new meaning and resonance, recreating a complex narrative from the singular ones. Ironically, the end result reflects a curious specificity of place and circumstance, the resulting all over patterns producing fields of energetic references to landscape and emotion laden areas of colours and patterns.
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I remember when I was 18 or so I would go to nightclubs in Manchester and take E or acid and shadows shifting up and down the walls swans, red glass purred me to sleep candle at my mum's ornaments...
The show is a reflection of Liu Bolin's multifaceted and complex view of contemporary society and culture. The critically acclaimed and internationally renowned artist will release the first works of a new series, Hiding in California.
