{"id":1546,"date":"2011-11-08T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2024-03-19T00:18:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T07:18:31","slug":"between-serendipity-happenstance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/between-serendipity-happenstance\/","title":{"rendered":"Between Serendipity & Happenstance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Between Serendipity & Happenstance (detail)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve uploaded new work to my website – my new painting Between Serendipity & Happenstance<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

I was talking to a friend recently about my most recent self-portrait, To Break Free (Without the Hunter)<\/em>, and he was asking me what the piece was about. I was somewhat reluctant to go into too much detail, as I like to leave a certain amount of that up to the viewer. The clues are often there, and as much as I have my own thoughts on what my work is about, the viewer also plays an important part in the interpretation of my work and forming his or her own narratives.<\/p>\n

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To Break Free (Without the Hunter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I give visual clues, bits and pieces to a story, and oftentimes, there is much inferred in the title of a painting too. I’ve always been a bit turned off by works called, Untitled<\/em>, in that that is as much a title as any other. The work is actually titled, Untitled<\/em>, to me at least. \u00a0Which may or may not be the point (more times than not, I don’t think it is).<\/p>\n

I give a lot of thought into the title of a piece. Sometimes it comes as an afterthought – only once I’ve finished the painting does the title come to me. And sometimes it comes to me before the painting has even been created, as soon as I can picture the painting in my head, the title pops up with the image. For Between Serendipity & Happenstance<\/em>, the title was something I was working on after the painting was finished. While I was painting it, I simply referred to it as\u00a0The Swing<\/em>, in my thoughts. Some other titles I played with were The Pendulum of Serendipity,<\/em>\u00a0To Oscillate by Chanc<\/em>e, <\/em>and\u00a0The Mademoiselle Oscillates, <\/em>amongst a list of others not worth mentioning. Often, I get drawn to certain words and try to work them into the title, playing around with different combinations until I find the right fit. \u00a0And I arrive at the appropriate title much like when I know I’ve finished a painting…it just feels right and I know when to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve uploaded new work to my website – my new painting Between Serendipity & Happenstance. I was talking to a friend recently about my most recent self-portrait, To Break Free (Without the Hunter), and he was asking me what the piece was about. I was somewhat reluctant to go into too much detail, as I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-with-sidebar","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[263,275,15],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/swing_dtl2.jpg?fit=474%2C474&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3305,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions\/3305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}