No Beginning No End

Clear resin, acrylic, paper, watercolor, pencil, yarn
16 x 16 x 11 cm
2023

The resin pieces were originally failures from learning resin 3D printing. While being printed, they fell off the building plate and became semi-flattened on the film surface. The resin cured and I didn’t want to discard them as plastic waste. If I did, their existence will continue in the landfill. Or I can use them in a new piece.

The assemblage eventually included layers of watercolor painting, pencil writing, the resin pieces and red yarn. The concept of this piece begins to exist as they come together. However, these components pre-exist, in forms of liquid resin, plain paper, watercolor paints and water etc. They will continue to exist in other forms if the piece is to be taken apart or destroyed.

The resin pieces and the closed yarn loop can be re-arranged in an infinite number of ways, posing questions whether the piece is ever competed, whether there is a set definition of the relationship between them.

In my mind, making this piece is a meditation on the Buddhist concepts of inter-being, impermanence, no-birth and no-death.