沒所謂搬家
沒所謂新屋
只有我現在
是，我現在
在這裏

我回來的時侯，總帶著...

把自己交出來
把自己藏起來
然後剩下多少自己
把自己殺掉
把自己重塑
然後餘下多少自己

為何總是減數
自由就必得如此嗎

追求自由
是一種慢性毒品嗎

build a landscape

Shadow and its Cloud

The sun? What sun? And why should it hide the sun from us unless it is the same sun that you have taken over as the projector of your circle?

But this torch, your lamp, makes shadow. Even at noon. Even/self seeing itself. Your noon leaves in the darkness the other side of the earth, and its inside, and the depths of the sea.

-- Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche - Luce Irigaray

The Sea can tell

a still-life picture

text

shadow

The body is the subject of shadow --- and its shadowy seeing is also, already, the imprint, the reminder of the light, the sign of solar vision.

Corpus Jean-Luc Nancy

Domestic Nature

Seems, it is very reasonable to draw a tree next to a house, when one wants to make a landscape picture. However, I never make them together.

Seems, it is very comfortable to draw a flower jar on a table (maybe, against a window or wall), when one wants to make a still-life picture. However, these elements have never met.

Nature for me, is a non-native language. Maybe, we can never speak its language and there is not even a way to learn. Nature has no body. Then, when during the past 2 years, I went back and forth from Nature to the cities, I was not be able to find completed vocabularies to 'talk about' it. Nature does not guarantee an experience.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty once suggested,"Nature is what has a meaning, without this meaning being posited by thought: it is the autoproduction of a meaning. Nature is thus different from a simple thing. It has an interior, is determined from within; ...nature is different from man: it is not instituted by him and is opposed to custom, to discourse."

Perhaps what I am showing in this exhibition is like the line, from Lautreamont, in the Surrealist Manifesto: "the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella." My drawings - a stool meets a tree, bodies without head meet the text (those texts I saw on some USA road trips), a lamp meets another tree - show all these encounters, though eventually they are not actual experiences. They are only an imaginary afternoon, when I take a short walk in the woods, may be or may not be getting lost, thinking back and forth -- depart home or return home.

Domestic Nature
drawings on wood and paper
work by Ivy Ma

Jean Brandt Gallery / Cleveland

Opening Reception
ArtWalk Friday May 8 / 6 -10 p.m.

my artwork gives birth to me

inversion --- wherever space should be taken

natural / accidental

[ ]...nature is thus different from a simple thing. It has an interior, is determined from within; hence the opposition of "natural" to "accidental". Yet nature is different from man: it is not instituted by him and is opposed to custom, to discourse.

Nature - Course Notes from Collège de France -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

獨自地
我在反方向的路上走
以為離開
離開痛苦

--- 我寫於凌晨

送給自己不多的憐惜
以為補償

於凌晨
我確信
我從不學會書寫

然後
還有許多
許多學不會的事

我於凌晨

我
寫

sit and then think

With thoughts about the body, the body always force us to think farther, always too far: too far to carry on as thought, but never far enough to become a body.

CORPUS, Jean - Luc Nancy

think and then sit

Art is that Body

The Åland Archipelago Guest Artist Residence in Kökar 2007

[... ] ...The body is a place that opens, displaces and spaces phallus and cephale: making room for them to create an event (rejoicing, suffering, thinking, being born, dying, sexing, laughing, sneezing, trembling, weeping, forgeting ...)

CORPUS, Jean - Luc Nancy

Two Poems : Line / Circle

seldom make something feeling oriental

making this for a dancer friend

according to his idea

line and circle

one poem + one poem
_____________________

i want to keep more quiet

simply i want quietness

esp in front of

too much interpretation

you try to make

sincereness, politeness and postponement

being sincere

so being polite

what should not do and what should do

i keep reminding myself

maybe being quiet is the first step

postpone all u want to say

postpone all first (too quick) come up to your mind

having time to be considerate

postpone the desire

be polite

untitled

thanks Chan Ning using my drawing for her book cover

the designer really make a good work, thanks :>

the title of the book always reminds me --

life's going on -

we get stuck as we want change

we stop, we run

we hesitate, we provoke

we are stab, we are delighted

we get stuck as we dont want change

and then decision are made

the time, we dont know the music is ended

New Orleans

we need light, but not in a sleep.
we love solitude, but not in the morning.

central park zoo