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a coherent sense of unity, that rejects any conventional classification: so before starting to elaborate about your production, we would suggest to our readers to visit http://www.han-qin.com in order to get a synoptic view of your multifaceted artistic production: while walking our readers through your process, we would like to ask you if you have you ever happened to realize that such multidisciplinary approach is the only way to express and convey the idea you explore.
past operates as a filter through which I view and experience life in the US. You are a versatile artist and while formally grounded in traditional visual arts as painting, drawing and printmaking, your practice now adapts a traditional approach to contemporary digital era. The results convey together
I really like the questions you mentioned before, which inspired me to have a new perspective to think about my process. It was fun to explore different materials. I think combining one thing and its opposite together will become something previously unimagined and unexpected. Digital thinking plus analogue process is a methodology though out my practice. The multidisciplinary approach could come from my background training of printmaking in China. Since printmaking is a multi-material practice, with college training, I could eventually convert printmaking language into integrated arts or contemporary art languages. It seems that this conversion is convenient and natural to me. I think I didn’t intend to be multidisciplinary. Thinking about culture boundaries, language discomfort, technology development, and classic skills extinction, led me to be multidisciplinary. For this special issue of ARTiculAction we have selected Where is home, a stimulating mixed media installation that our readers have already started to get to know in the introductory pages of this article. Your inquiry into the variety of feeling of leaving and
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