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Wee Ng
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PaintingThe Ones Who Survive Us Will Take Us There
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PaintingTofu Foundry
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PaintingPyrrhic Victories
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PaintingMother’s Intuition
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PaintingWe Are Who We’re Waiting For
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Wee S Ng
Wee Ng
Nashville,
TN
Medium:
Painting USN parent ‘30
“Emotional connection is my greatest inspiration,” says Wee Ng. “As I'm painting a piece, I have a relationship and bond with the process and the work. I examine the meaning and explore what moved me to paint certain elements or choose the expressions in the painting.
“There is a satisfaction to completing a piece that I've worked hard on and found or assigned meaning to, yet I always experience an emotional need for it to be viewed in person by others. I find that having another person connect with the piece, whether it be an ephemeral connection or a more profound one, truly completes the process for me. Whatever they find and interpret, whatever meanings they assign to the elements and expressions, I find to be equally valid and important as my own. By this, I feel connected with the viewer and that connection is truly meaningful to me.”
Get to know Wee better:
Titles of works can be descriptive or clever or totally unrelated. What's your favorite title of a piece you've named? Why?
"We Are The Ones We're Waiting For"
This is one of my recent pieces to be featured in Artclectic. While I enjoy having vagueness and different layers to titles of paintings, for this one, on its surface, intends to inspire action and an understanding that we will need to be who brings change. The piece features majestic whales with mysterious cracked surfaces and dramatic clouds, centered around a figure, whose expression could be interpreted as a newfound determination.
If you could be any artist in the world, who would you choose to be?
While I am always eager to learn and grow as an artist and I look up to plenty of artists for their skill level and vision, yet I feel that if I could choose to be any artist in the world, I would choose myself. I consider art to be a very personal and unique expression of one’s life experiences and artistic journey. I believe art to be so interwoven with the artist's own history and vision, even the style and skill as they grow and evolve is such a unique and significant story.
Our theme this year is Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. In the creation of your pieces, can you point to any examples where you follow these practices?
I'm so glad to hear this to be the theme of the art show. My latest work has been focused on whales, octopuses, and other marine life, which, as I'm painting them, I'm also learning a lot about them and how the changes in the ocean temperatures have been affecting their behaviors and habitats. In my practice, I do try to find ways to reduce waste, whether it be preserving paint between working sessions, reducing the number of disposable gloves while painting, or timing my painting sessions for longer periods such that fewer waste materials are produced. I'm looking to find other ways to reuse and recycle materials!
