There are countless things to pay attention to in this dangerous world. I’ve learned this week The middle of the calendar year is to be added to the well-known “list”. It seems that according to Chinese folklore The poisonous animals come from the cold of winter, and a bunch of annoying hostile spirits, deadly diseases and your most evil enemies. They are not making modifications here. To honor this “the best time of the year” Lauren YS and Makoto Chi 28 works (as well as murals, see below) were created in the new “Five Poisons” exhibition viewed in Philadelphia of Arch Enemy Art. The show will open this Friday. We have interviewed the artists about the following works.
Absolute my cultural ignorance, but my “study” of five poisons led me to find that in China, the “five poisons” are represented by animals, snakes, scorpions, anxiety, centipede, gecko, gecko and toad and five poisons in Buddhism and Buddhism, the five poisons in the heart are: attachment, disgust, pride and New York, which included China, and five drugs, and New York City, New York City, New York City, New York City, and New York City, seeing its dominance in mainland China. “I saw the spike creatures of snakes and dangerous creatures spin the detective parts in all the work of this show, but I was curious that you both agreed on what poisons are and what they stand for?
Like many very ancient wisdom and symbols, things deform over time as time passes. “5 poisons” refer to the ancient Chinese concept of medicine. Especially cent, scorpions, frogs, snakes and spiders. It is said that mid-month is an unlucky period because poisonous animals emerge from cold coma. With them hostile spirits, diseases and often enemies. During this time, these 5 poisonous animals were engraved with amulets, and sometimes tigers were added to protect them. Some ingested tin agents have injected a small amount of poison, believing that “using poison and poison as poison” can combat the threat of poisoning in five beasts or one of other vicious spirits. We are all attracted by the idea of poisons in drugs and vice versa, which is how we obscure how we observe the dynamics of people relating to each other.
The numbers in many paintings (mixed humans or others) seem to coexist with these insects and animals…?
We both have been working with “hybrid” biology for a while at work, centering around the subtext of hybrid identity and heritage. In a tribute to the ancient Chinese concept of drug, it seems appropriate to fuse these organisms together, and the result is a multi-layered mixing method between our respective backgrounds. Makoto is especially gifted to create works that create coexistence with struggle, passion, love, and at the same time, and these dynamics are inherently diverse, just as all dynamics are in our own lives. Lauren is agile in weaving contemporary and ancient mythology as well as profound cultural studies, especially in celebration of gender-fluid chimera and mythological creatures.
You both collaborate on this show. Can you explain how the process works?
Each of us made working bodies individually, some work between each other, and then collaborated on the title image (“5 Poisons”), and I think the feeling of collaborative performance here is captured in a broader sense because we influence each other like people and artists. When working together, we plan and draw at the same time, first drawing the sketch to allow the individual parts to overlap and interweave, then taking turns drawing. Painting is roughly the same; sometimes we take turns painting the designated parts of each other to experiment further and learn from each other. In this way, we are able to achieve cohesion, allowing possibilities that we cannot achieve in our own work.
In this way, we are able to achieve cohesion, allowing possibilities that we cannot achieve in our own work.
