MLitt Fine Art Practice School of Fine Art
Yatong Tan
Ya Ya
GSA – MLitt Fine Art Practice – Photography & Moving Image
My works are mainly based on photography and video, and I am also exploring the combination of different materials and photography.
My creations come from my observation of life and the summary of my own experience, revolving around the relationship between nature and the city, the discovery of self-consciousness and art therapy. Through the visualization of sometimes quiet and sometimes absurd, the viewer can have an intuitive experience.
Bliss Park
People and their environments have always had a complex relationship that is complementary and intertwined. Both the social and natural environments are important factors that influence our growth, and at the same time, we are influencing the environment around us. My art practice uses meditation as a methodology, and quoted some concepts from transcendental meditation，attempting to link experiences from the natural environment with a journey of self-awareness and discovery, embodied in a unique combination of photography, mirrored materials and fabrics. This is not only a visual experience but also a meditative exploration that invites the viewer to engage in a deep dialogue with nature, the city and the heart.
This series invites the viewer to pause, look, reflect and engage; they are mirrors of the heart, interfaces with nature and canvases for contemplation, constantly reminding us that as we look at the world around us, we are also looking deeper into and understanding ourselves.
Variable size
Mixed material
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Doughnut
“Keep your eye on the doughnut ,not on the hole.”If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work ,that’s all you can control. You can’t control any of what’s out there ,outside yourself.But you can get inside and do the best you can do.
———–<Catching the Big Fish>
110x110cm，2024
Photography，Mirror
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MEMOIRS OF TREES
My practice explores the relationship between my identity and my environment through the methodology of memoir (of my life in the city). In the images, the mountains and forests act as the opposite of the city, the opposite of development, convenience, affluence, and vanity, as well as the opposite of suffocation, pressure, speed, and impetuousness.
Although many of us live in the city, our relationship with nature remains inseparable. I have always felt that every tree is a person, and the mountains and forests are a quiet society. In my practice, I am trying to find the relationship between cities, people, and mountains and forests.
The work recalls my city life by replaying these stories in the mountains and forests, the work seeks to discover, transform and merge the faliliar and the strange.
Mixed Media:photography, video, soil ,grass
Size:420mm x 594mm
2024
Silent Dialogue
People and their environments have always had a complex relationship that is complementary and intertwined. Both the social and natural environments are important factors that influence our growth, and at the same time, we are influencing the environment around us. My art practice attempts to link experiences from the natural environment with a journey of self-awareness and discovery.
This series invites the viewer to pause, look, reflect and engage; they are mirrors of the heart, interfaces with nature and canvases for contemplation, constantly reminding us that as we look at the world around us, we are also looking deeper into and understanding ourselves.
35x35cm，2024
Photography,Mirror,Steel
