The Ghost Story?  Originally I was thinking about creating a story-line, revealing the ridiculousness in the real world.  Continuing the idea from my series of paintings, playing with figurative languages of real, unreal and surreal, transferring the static drawing into dynamic images.  As you can see from one of the scenes in the video, reusing the boat scene from the original Friday the 13th was inspired by the artist, Peter Doig. Utilizing different elements, overlapping the images I collected and trying to picture up all the imaginations in my mind.  Eventually when I puzzle them up gradually, the more I bring and gather these images together, the more it turns out to be non-sense and no meaning.

 

While, no meaning is a kind of meaning.  Just as no facial expression is a kind of an expression, which relates to the ghosts in my paintings.  A white blanket with two hollow holes, makes it somehow easier to focus just on the eye contact, but also, in a way, you will find it difficult to really guess what he or she is feeling underneath that blank white cover; the lack of information on the appearance, plus the bizarre movements and behavior, creates the kind of sarcastic as well as paradoxical situation I want.

 

The underline of Jonah is horror, this is what many people have told me, and yes, most of the time I am inspired by horror.  What I like about horror is not because of all those classic and bloody jump scares, or the scary faces and image itself in a film, but, more to say, horror can also be considered as a space without meaning.  Horror, a flip side of meaning, it is actually trying to empty out the space, and that’s what make horror truly horror, the real horror that is secured to the ground.  Leading people to a stage of confusion, is what it appears to be when it comes to the very end of the video.  How would you possibly make an artwork without meaning, which is literally quite difficult.  Usually, when people make art, most of the time, we are trying to deliver some sort of meaning, people consider art as a meaningful material to express.  Whilst there’s no meaning, it intends to leave the audiences much more imagination and possibilities of giving the art itself more meanings.

 

The thinking of constructing the images has no differences between as being a painter and being an editor.  Actually using the similar way of thinking but applying quite a different material to express, which it is same, but on the other hand, is really different from my original experience.  This is my first time putting the ideas together and making them into a short video, it is always experimental for the first time, but always good to try something new as well.  I believe there’s still a lot of things to be improved and adjusted in the video, however, since this is the very first finished version, which means something to me.  Therefore, instead of changing, I decided to keep the version.

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2019