Hi Kim,
I visited the museum in the Yangpu district yesterday. I took my son Joejoe together to enjoy the tour.
Please refer to the attached pdf. I write some texts next to the pictures.
When we watched your work, a surprising thing for me was that Joejoe told me how to read your work!
He said: “Mom when you look at this work, what component you notice first?”
I said, “The bridge?”
He said, “What’s the most attractive part of this bridge?”
I said, “The hole of the bridge?”
He said, “Yes, the opening hole of the bridge. Do you know why?”
I asked, “Why?”
He said, “Because when you watch it in horizontal, you will find it is on the lower third place; and when you look at it in vertical, it is on the right one-third place. And the cross-point of the one-third place is the most beautiful place of the whole picture in a work.”
Joejoe says that their Art Teacher taught them about it. Now I understand why your work looks so comfortable in a very nice layout, although the objects on the picture are just normal things, such as a bridge, a stone, some people, or else ordinary stuff. That’s the reason for the secret! There must be more secrets in the work for how the aesthetics principle running, which creates the pleasant work. Amazing!