LI WENMIN 李文旻
LI WENMIN 李文旻
Contemplative Shadows
9, July - 25, July 2015
Flinders Street Gallery
61 Flinders Street, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia
Images © 2003-2015 Li Wenmin
I often think of Rabindranath Tagore's words - "what you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow" when I see shadows and when I draw them. I often wonder about how much we know of the world and its shadows, or ourselves and our shadows if 'shadow' does balance our egos in life.
When I visited some Chinese gardens in 2013 I was so fascinated by the space filled with the trees, pavilions and rocks and their shadows/reflections. Water in the gardens separated the world from its reflections/shadows but connecting both tightly at the same time. The shadows looked so real and they created complexly parallel spaces in which I was.
So are my drawings.