While painting this image, I was approaching my 40th birthday. Toward the bottom of the image are numbers which represent the years I had lived up to that point. I painted a number and then tried to remember something about that year before I went on to the next number. While I was working on this painting, the Tiananmen Square Massacre occurred. I was born the day the People's Republic of China was born. I began to think about all the people who had been silenced during my lifetime and throughout history but who had found ways to speak without words.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Calendar Series: 52nd Month / Speaking Without Words About Holy Contradictions (1989)
While painting this image, I was approaching my 40th birthday. Toward the bottom of the image are numbers which represent the years I had lived up to that point. I painted a number and then tried to remember something about that year before I went on to the next number. While I was working on this painting, the Tiananmen Square Massacre occurred. I was born the day the People's Republic of China was born. I began to think about all the people who had been silenced during my lifetime and throughout history but who had found ways to speak without words.
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