INERTIA (2014-2016)
This is an on-going series of work produced from long-distance transportation taken in various countries. Using an iPhone camera, I capture the moving landscape once every 10 seconds on buses, trains, planes. Each of these frames is printed onto translucent paper and acts as a physical pixel on the canvas. Arranged in rows and clouds, these pixels create a collage of landscapes that escapes temporality while implying motion. They give the impression of the recollection of a voyage in abstract vision, drawing inspiration from the impressionist painters while using a tool (phone camera) that was meant to offer us instant realism. These "surface installations" engage the viewers with an alternative way of reading landscape, and question the role of traditional landscape painting within the context of contemporary lifestyle and technological conditions. In addition, they comment on how memory works - like clouds - overlaps, eludes, hides, fades, evolves, yet permanently exists.
- Yi Dai, 2015
This is an on-going series of work produced from long-distance transportation taken in various countries. Using an iPhone camera, I capture the moving landscape once every 10 seconds on buses, trains, planes. Each of these frames is printed onto translucent paper and acts as a physical pixel on the canvas. Arranged in rows and clouds, these pixels create a collage of landscapes that escapes temporality while implying motion. They give the impression of the recollection of a voyage in abstract vision, drawing inspiration from the impressionist painters while using a tool (phone camera) that was meant to offer us instant realism. These "surface installations" engage the viewers with an alternative way of reading landscape, and question the role of traditional landscape painting within the context of contemporary lifestyle and technological conditions. In addition, they comment on how memory works - like clouds - overlaps, eludes, hides, fades, evolves, yet permanently exists.
- Yi Dai, 2015
Title: Inertia No.1 - from Edinburgh Scotland to London England on 31 August 2013
Dimension: 100cm W x 70cm H x 4cm D (39in W x 28in H x 1.5in D)
Material: Mixed media (photography printed on Japanese paper, wood, and transparent waterproof acrylic medium)
Year: 2014
Dimension: 100cm W x 70cm H x 4cm D (39in W x 28in H x 1.5in D)
Material: Mixed media (photography printed on Japanese paper, wood, and transparent waterproof acrylic medium)
Year: 2014
Title: Inertia No.2 - from London England to Glasgow Scotland on 26 August 2013
Dimension: 100cm W x 70cm H x 4cm D (39in W x 28in H x 1.5in D)
Material: Mixed media (photography printed on Japanese paper, wood, and transparent waterproof acrylic medium)
Year: 2014
Dimension: 100cm W x 70cm H x 4cm D (39in W x 28in H x 1.5in D)
Material: Mixed media (photography printed on Japanese paper, wood, and transparent waterproof acrylic medium)
Year: 2014
Title: Inertia No.3 - from Beijing China to Changsha China on 30 December 2014
Dimension: 100cm W x 70cm H x 4cm D (39in W x 28in H x 1.5in D)
Material: Mixed media (photography printed on Japanese paper, wood, and transparent waterproof acrylic medium)
Year: 2015
Dimension: 100cm W x 70cm H x 4cm D (39in W x 28in H x 1.5in D)
Material: Mixed media (photography printed on Japanese paper, wood, and transparent waterproof acrylic medium)
Year: 2015
Title: Inertia No.4 - from Xiamen China to Changsha China on 19 January 2015
Dimension: 100cm W x 70cm H x 4cm D (39in W x 28in H x 1.5in D)
Material: Mixed media (photography printed on Japanese paper, wood, and transparent waterproof acrylic medium)
Year: 2015
Dimension: 100cm W x 70cm H x 4cm D (39in W x 28in H x 1.5in D)
Material: Mixed media (photography printed on Japanese paper, wood, and transparent waterproof acrylic medium)
Year: 2015
Title: Inertia No.5 - from Penzance England to London England on 21 March 2015
Dimension: 100cm W x 70cm H x 4cm D (39in W x 28in H x 1.5in D)
Material: Mixed media (photography printed on Japanese paper, wood, and transparent waterproof acrylic medium)
Year: 2015
Dimension: 100cm W x 70cm H x 4cm D (39in W x 28in H x 1.5in D)
Material: Mixed media (photography printed on Japanese paper, wood, and transparent waterproof acrylic medium)
Year: 2015
Title: Inertia No.6 - from Edinburg Scotland to London England on 31 August 2013
Dimension: 100cm W x 70cm H x 4cm D (39in W x 28in H x 1.5in D)
Material: Mixed media (photography printed on Japanese paper, wood, and transparent waterproof acrylic medium)
Year: 2015
Dimension: 100cm W x 70cm H x 4cm D (39in W x 28in H x 1.5in D)
Material: Mixed media (photography printed on Japanese paper, wood, and transparent waterproof acrylic medium)
Year: 2015
Title: Inertia No.7 - from Beijing China to Pingyao China on 24 October 2015
Dimension: 100cm W x 70cm H x 4cm D (39in W x 28in H x 1.5in D)
Material: Mixed media (photography printed on Japanese paper, wood, and transparent waterproof acrylic medium)
Year: 2016
Dimension: 100cm W x 70cm H x 4cm D (39in W x 28in H x 1.5in D)
Material: Mixed media (photography printed on Japanese paper, wood, and transparent waterproof acrylic medium)
Year: 2016
Title: Inertia No.8 - from Xi'an China to Changsha China on 28 October 2015
Dimension: 100cm W x 70cm H x 4cm D (39in W x 28in H x 1.5in D)
Material: Mixed media (photography printed on Japanese paper, wood, and transparent waterproof acrylic medium)
Year: 2016
Dimension: 100cm W x 70cm H x 4cm D (39in W x 28in H x 1.5in D)
Material: Mixed media (photography printed on Japanese paper, wood, and transparent waterproof acrylic medium)
Year: 2016
Title: Inertia No.9 - from Changsha China to Shanghai China on 2nd November 2015
Dimension: 100cm W x 70cm H x 4cm D (39in W x 28in H x 1.5in D)
Material: Mixed media (photography printed on Japanese paper, wood, and transparent waterproof acrylic medium)
Year: 2016
Dimension: 100cm W x 70cm H x 4cm D (39in W x 28in H x 1.5in D)
Material: Mixed media (photography printed on Japanese paper, wood, and transparent waterproof acrylic medium)
Year: 2016
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