Life Maps, 2016 - 2022. Photo by Ying He and Prolab Image
LIFE MAPS
Life Maps is Bu’s ongoing exploration on drawing as a performative movement of the hands. The marks, numbers, letters and lines carry the intuitive motion performed on the paper. The endurance of the movement uses the paper as a stage and as a boundary for action. The results of the performances are either purely intuitive or an action for a reflection on a life event. The repetition of motion is like meditation and ritual. The repetition is never the same.
Collective maps, 2024, workshops results with 3-7 years old students, Art Space, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide Festival Centre. Photo by Sam Robert.
‘Connecting the Connections’ (9 panels), 2022-2023, pencil on tea soaked timber boards. 210 x 180 cm. The top six panels are permanent collection of The Hospital Research Foundation after winning the Emerging Artist category of the THRF Group-Creative Health Art Prize. Photo by Sam Robert
Mapping as visual journal of the human connections built through the tea ceremonies and tea pouring performances as well as the awareness of various ways of human connections over one year. (Tea Project: Pouring Tea Until It Is All Evaporation)
Life Maps-DesireLines, Oil paint and pen on glass, 2023.Photo by Sam Robert
Mapping the algorithmic desire lines on glass, metaphoric depiction of human activities in digitalised contemporary Life.
Four months of mapping and mark making on glass windows at ArtPod, Sa,2022
Mapping on the glass windows as a process based temporary mural at ArtPod artist residency Stop And See, responding texts by the writer Eleen Deprez in 2022.