The Drawn Towards and the Anticipating

The Visual Journey of Shiang-Jiun Chen

Catch and Divided Series, 2014

“Catch” brings moments of scene-capturing with elements identified in the visualization of unseen power and its relationship to others through reconstructing the elements of interior structures and people in the environments. We try to free ourselves and experience flow in the things that challenge us; yet, we might struggle in seeking harmony under structures of power. Those images are composed to raise a simulation of feeling telling that something is caught with something else. There is some influential factor existing in each image in an implying, not direct way.

“Divided” describes the concept of division of objects through a discovery from natural landscape scenes. It implies some influential factor places limitations upon us and effects our perception of nature.

Rose (30x22”)
Floating (18x30”)
Shout (22.7 x30”)
Distant (19.5x30”)
Surrounded (22x30”)
Caught (19.3x30”)

Divided No.1 ((30x20”) No.2 (30x20”) No.3 (20x27”)