{"id":2332,"date":"2012-11-19T13:08:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T21:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2024-03-19T00:18:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T07:18:02","slug":"a-many-layered-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/a-many-layered-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"A many-layered thing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the beginning…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The other day, while putting together my presentation for the Surrey Art Gallery, I came across some old photos that I had taken of a couple of my self-portrait paintings in progress. I thought it would be interesting to share some of the photos as I actually forgot that this was how I had created the image. My painting,\u00a0The Return Home<\/em>, was started in late 2006 and finished in 2007. I had begun the painting in London and brought it back with me to Vancouver. The trip to Vancouver had not actually been a planned permanent return, but it ended up being one, so I finished the painting in Vancouver.<\/p>\n

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Roselina #1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had been given a piece of oak to try painting on, and taking the size of the panel into consideration, I decided I wanted to create a double self-portrait. I was working with some photographs I had taken, and I had been torn about whether or not I wanted to stay in London, so I had the idea of the double self and the two sides of me – being in two hearts about coming\/going. It wasn’t until a few months later that I realized I was permanently home and would not be returning to London to live, and that was when the background for this image emerged.<\/p>\n

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Roselina #2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was the year of the giant snow storm in Vancouver and a lot of the trees had fallen down from the early and unexpected snowfall. I felt like the fallen trees reflected how I was feeling at the time, rather dejected about my move back as I wasn’t ready yet to come home. The detailed Florentine pattern in the background was the first elaborate pattern I had painted and I remembered it being a painstaking process but well worth the effort. This was quite a big step forward in my practice, a major stepping stone to the detailed floral patterns now found in many of my pieces.<\/p>\n

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The knit of the sweater taking shape<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Return Home (2007)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another image I dug up on my computer was this photo of the set up from my London studio when I was painting\u00a0She Wanted To Do More Than Just Pass<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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My London studio set up for small-scale paintings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s just a little sneak peek into how I was working at the time. This painting was the first part of my “return home”, painted months before I had to leave London, when I still\u00a0didn’t know where I wanted to go next. It’s interesting to think of these two paintings as bookends to my decision.<\/p>\n

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She wanted to do more than just pass (2006)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These were some of the paintings that I talked about at the panel discussion at the Surrey Art Gallery this past weekend with Eryne Donahue<\/a> and David Horvitz<\/a>. I’d like to thank everyone who came out to the event, as well as Jordan Strom, the Surrey Art Gallery<\/a> and the Contemporary Art Society Vancouver<\/a>, for organizing the artist talks and reception. The exhibition, Scenes of Selves, Occasions for Ruses<\/em>, is on until December 16th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day, while putting together my presentation for the Surrey Art Gallery, I came across some old photos that I had taken of a couple of my self-portrait paintings in progress. I thought it would be interesting to share some of the photos as I actually forgot that this was how I had created […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2336,"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":[6,17,10,21,19],"tags":[263,275,264,266,38,11,13,176,40,20],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/roselinahung-underptg1.jpg?fit=550%2C424&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332"}],"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=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3264,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions\/3264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}