I started this coffee drawing project in 2006. For many years, I used coffee, a nontraditional material, with pencil, color inks, and breath-blowing to create my work. Starting in 2020, I continued the idea but stopped using coffee as my primary material. Inspired by Chinese Splash Ink Paintings and artists like John Cage, William Anastasi, Cy Twombly, and improvisational music, the lines in my works are organic, fluid, and uncertain dancing in the space of in-betweenness, randomness and consciousness and heightened by marks of improvisation. This creative process innately mirrors the indeterminate nature of our everyday reality upon the reliance on interdependent elements and trusts to arrive at a work's completion. The conscious self loses in the creative process guided by intuition and feelings, bringing incredible foresight beyond preconceived notions and sometimes words. Media are interrelated. Everyday human existence and its fragility are my building blocks. The sizes of my drawings are 12"x9", 9"x12", 30"x22", 22"x30", and 8"x8". My current project, "Moving Drawing", crosses drawing, video and sound/music.
NC8x8 drawing #5, #6, and #7 and the Moving Drawing #1 video below, are together an interdisciplinary project. It involves two stages and a video recording. The drawing movements in the video were handheld cellphone recordings while listening to Hilary Hahn's 1997 J.S. Bach's Chaconne for solo violin performance. The 2nd part of the project was to divide that drawing into three 8 "x 8" pieces and finish them as the #5, #6, and #7 NC8x8 drawings, as seen separately. The form of each drawing dances between randomness and consciousness, heightened by marks of improvisation. The creative process mirrors the unpredictable nature of our daily life upon the reliance on interdependent elements and trusts to arrive at a work's completion.