Brook Hsu
Farewell, 2024
ink on canvas
200 x 180 x 2.5 cm
78 3/4 x 70 3/4 x 1 in
unique
78 3/4 x 70 3/4 x 1 in
unique
Hsu uses shellac ink with a liquid approach, letting it pool and soak. Lines form with frail edges as the color bleeds and travels over and bonds with the ground,...
Hsu uses shellac ink with a liquid approach, letting it pool and soak. Lines form with frail edges as the color bleeds and travels over and bonds with the ground, extending the tenuous figure-ground relation into coiling marks that waver between legibility and obscurity. Through these calligraphic gestures, Hsu builds and complicates writing, materializing verses that live beyond their textuality.