Medium: Acrylic and crayon on canvas, collage—monochrome (black & white); limited accent colours reserved for the small “code” canvases
Size: Nine works at 40 × 30 cm each; five works at 10 × 10 cm each
Size: Nine works at 40 × 30 cm each; five works at 10 × 10 cm each
I began working on a monochrome painting series titled Talk Nonsense (2024). The inspiration stemmed from two sources: the “meaningless dialogues” widely circulated online and the depiction of linguistic disorder in Left-Wing Genius, Right-Wing Madman. Rather than hastily judging whether such speech is to be considered decline or evolution, I treated it as creative material.
The canvases present fragments of speech in black and white—language that may be read as either meaningless or very complex and thought-provoking. Nine paintings transform compressed dialogue via a comic-book aesthetic, while smaller 10×10 cm canvases “code” canvases, meant to read like cryptographic keys or serve as reading indexes, bear the series' few splashes of color. It restores the feel of a code-running program and the reading order: input → process → output.
Does human thinking tend to be simple or complex?