Coffee Powder Series #2
Coffee powder is my everyday interaction from perking up my mornings to making a cup for a coffee lover. From the extraction of espresso to the exploration of latte art. Thrown away coffee powder - the everyday disposal from the calibration of the coffee grinder - became my way of creating a latte art.
In every-art making process, its complexity in finishing is restricted by my expectation in creating a perfect artwork. By deconstructing the recipe from a perfect cup, the primary material of coffee powder became my medium of art making. In reconstructing the process of coffee making, I can still create my cup of coffee without throwing any coffee powder away.
Having a strong attachment to my paintings and drawings, I struggled to salvage and keep their existence. In choosing coffee powder to create and to erase, I leave a temporary existence of myself that is only keepsake in photograph.
Coffee Powder Series #2 is a continuity of the notion self. From erasing to preserving – keeping what is temporary, into something more permanent. Now, in choosing coffee powder to create and preserve, I leave a temporary existence into something that can last “forever”.
Coffee Powder Series | 1/3
“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you.”
Mixed Media on Acrylic
29.7cm x 42.0cm
2018
Coffee Powder Series | 2/3
“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.”
Mixed Media on Acrylic
29.7cm x 42.0cm
2018
Coffee Powder Series | 3/3
“I'm strong on the outside, not all the way through. I've never been perfect, but neither have you.”
Mixed Media on Acrylic
29.7cm x 42.0cm
2018