Landscape in White, Brown, and Green, Paper and Glue, 9 1/2 in. x 9 1/4 in.
Inspiration
Artwork 1
Old Plum, Kano Sansetsu, 1646, Four Sliding-Door Panels (fusuma); Ink, Color, Gold, and Gold Leaf on Paper, 69 3/4 in. x 191 1/8 in.
The massive black trunk of an ancient plum tree with bending, twisting branches spans nearly 16 feet across four sliding panels. The reptilian old tree sprouts blossoms, which convey the atmosphere of a cold early spring morning and symbolize birth and renewal. These panels originally formed one wall of a room in the Tenshōin, a subtemple of Myōshinji, a Zen temple in Kyoto. During the 1880s, they were sold to a private collector and trimmed at the top to conform to the smaller dimensions of his home. On the reverse of these panels was a composition depicting the Chinese theme of the Eight Daoist Immortals, which formed a wall in the adjacent room. This composition was later separated and remounted, and it is now in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Artwork 2
Landscape, Fei Hanyuan (Hi Kangen), 1756, Hanging Scroll; Ink and Color on Paper, 35 5/16 in. x 13 7/16 in.
Fei Hanyuan, known in Japan as Hi Kangen 費漢源, was a Chinese merchant and artist who visited Nagasaki several times between 1734 and 1756, and was much admired by Japanese painters, including Suzuki Fuyō and Tatebe Ryōtai, and is most notably associated with the Literati (Bunjinga) style of painting.
Statement
The sculpture is a response to Kano Sansetsu's Old Plum from the year 1646 and Landscape by Fei Hanyuan (1756). I adored Fei Hanyuan's Landscape so I took a lot of inspiration from the rounded cliffs present in the scroll, as well as the greenery. Although these artworks were both mainly black and white (some red in Old Plum) I decided to dive a bit into color to bring life into the foliage and bark. Sansetsu's Old Plum inspired the trees I created, I loved how the tree is winding and curved it adds movement within the landscape.
In-Process Images
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