Burnt Rose #1-9

30:00 / live performance + painting / 2020 / USA

Place: Washington Street Art, Somerville, MA
Media: digital projection/digital sound/ 16mm film/guitar/sine tones/molcajete
Painting #1-9 (water ink on paper, rose pigment)/soft brick #1-9 (rose pigment, carving on paper, tile, framed)

It is a work of material variability involving floral pigments, handmade paper, ground materials, and vibrations of light, image, and sound. The nine stages of the performance arose from the rose’s organic behavior under a range of heating and drying conditions.

What color is a rose? Even a rose has many colors. For example, we learned that red comes from anthocyanins and yellow comes from carotenoids. I wanted to know what colors a rose, or a specific bunch of roses, would develop when heated and baked to different degrees. The resulting pigments were ground into watercolors and painted onto paper according to the results of nine stages of experimentation, forming the core structure of this work.

Images transition from paper to film. In the beams of light, celluloid, too, can burn, even in the most quiet moments. The flowers reborn from indeterminacy shine in the darkness, but only for a moment. As soon as it appears, it disappears.

Music performed by Michael Pisaro-Liu.

焦灼玫瑰 #1-9

這是一部涉及花卉顏料、手工紙、研磨材料以及光、影像和聲音振動的物質變異性作品。表演的九個階段源自於玫瑰在一系列加熱和乾燥條件下的有機行為。

玫瑰是什麼顏色的？即便是一朵玫瑰，也有多種顏色。例如，我們了解到紅色來自花青素，黃色來自類胡蘿蔔素。我想知道當一朵玫瑰、一束特定的玫瑰被經過不同程度加熱和烘烤時，會變化出什麼樣的顏色。將所得的顏料研磨成水彩，依照九個階段的實驗結果繪染到紙上，構成了此作品的主心結構。

圖像由紙張過渡至膠卷。在光束之中，即使在最安靜的時刻，賽璐珞也會燃燒。因不確定性所重生的花朵在黑暗底下閃耀，卻即生隨逝。出現決定了幻滅。

音樂由 Michael Pisaro-Liu 演奏。