Works > Veil Paintings

Veil of The Heart
Oil on Canvas, Staples
194 cm x 148 cm
2015
Passerby
Oil on Canvas and Staples
120 cm X 97 cm
2015
Son
Oil on Canvas and Staples
120 cm x 97 cm
2015
The Hunt
Oil on Canvas and Staples
184 cm x 147 cm
2015
Key
Oil, Gesso, and Staples on Canvas
68 cm x 56 cm
2015
Ray
Oil, Gesso, and Staples on Canvas
70 c x 58 cm
2015
Heart Valve
Oil, Gesso, and Staples on Canvas
70cm x 58 cm
2015
Sun
Oil and Staples on Canvass
18"x14"
2014
Edge
Oil and Staples on Canvass
18"x14"
2014
Threshold
Oil and Staples on Canvass
18"x14"
2014
Veil I
Oil and Staples on Canvass
18"x14"
2014
Veil II
Oil and Staples on Canvass
18"x14"
2014
Veil Rent
Oil and Staples on Canvass
18"x14"
2014
string Theory I
Oil and Staples on Canvass
18"x14"
2014
String theory II
Oil and Staples on Canvass
18"x14"
2014
String Theory III
Oil and Staples on Canvas
18"x14"
2014
Warps I
Oil and Staples on Canvass
18"x14"
2014
Warps II
Oil and Staples on Canvass
18"x14"
2014
Descent From The Cross
Oil and Staples on Canvass
18"x14"
2014
3 Veils
Oil and Staples on Canvass
18"x14"
2014
12 Veils I
Gesso, Oil, Staples on canvas
18" x 14"
2014
Corner
Oil and Staples on Canvass
18"x14"
2014
20 Veils
Oil and Staples on Canvas
18"x14"
2014
12 Veils II
Oil and staples on Canvas
18"x14"
2014
14 Veils
Oil and Staples on Canvas
18"x14"
2014
Stage
Oil and Staples on Canvass
18"x14"
2014

What is a veil? What is inspiration? What is perception? What is a portrait of unknown? How does one go beyond what one knows to approach the unknowable? When the borders of known and unknown dissolve, what happens to the image? What is an unknowable color?
Approaching a veil, an image emerges, only to reveal that there is another veil beyond it. Each layer alters the one before, concealing it while revealing something new. This process approaches proximity, meditation, presence, beyond presence, and the unknowable. Painting brings to foreground the limits of this unknowable. The horizontal trajectory of this limit moves from “gaze” to “encounter” to the realization that "unknowable" moves through us at any given moment. Upon this realization, directions dissolve and a kind of immersion occurs which is boundless and frameless. This is the most recent veil. Each painting is a veil. Perception is a veil. Inspiration is a veil. Photography by Hong Huazheng