Influences and Profile
In Australia, my name means "war." In Japan, it is pronounced Chaddo and means "tea ceremony." In China, it is pronounced Charda and means "moral exam." Australia, Japan, and China have all had an influence on my artistic development, and they have influenced me in a way that seems to reflect the meaning of my name in each respective country.
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In Australia, my art has focussed on using conflict to ask questions. These questions have welled from the naked truths that discomfort the puritan mind. In order to deal with the discomfort, the mind must answer questions in ways that deconstruct, and then reconstruct, shackles limiting vision. It is in the no man's land between deconstructions and reconstructions, where no rules are defined, that novel emotions and ideas expand awareness of humanity, and define a painting's worth. In more simple language, novel ideas come from intellectual, emotional and moral conflict, and Australia has plenty of such conflict. |
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In Japan, I've used art as a way to focus emotion, and appreciate beauty. A painter constructs every single line, and blends every colour, hence every detail of the final image has been filtered through the artist's mind. In the process, art is a gateway to positive emotions, and sees an end product that can continue to stimulate these positive emotions. A focus on beauty; however, can deny a reality. |
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In China, my appearance alone has me defined as being sexually immoral. With the stereotype preceding me in everyday Chinese life, I've in turn examined that stereotype in my art. It isn't necessarily my own morality that I’ve considered in art. China has a significant clash between the traditional and the modern as well as myth and reality. Those clashes are quite interesting. |
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My art has always been difficult to categorise. Personally, I'd define it as Psychological Symbolism. I create and integrate various pictorial representations in order to ask psychological questions. Although I define my work as "Psychological Symbolism" , the mainstream art world would define it as "Outsider Art." |