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S-Ann Ch'i
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Philippines
• 1977
Biography
S-Ann Ch'i is an abstract expressionist artist, biomedical scientist, and philanthropist, taking part in foreign humanitarian activities since 1998.
As for S-Ann Ch'i, her pseudonym speaks for her art. Influenced by the Chinese philosophy of life force or energy flow, the abstract artist approaches her medium like a dance, a flow, a series of sensations. Her attraction to the Japanese style of sumi-e (black ink) painting hails from her visits to various Buddhist temples in her teenage years. “The beauty I found in the graceful trails of incense smoke, set out to capture 'the flow' on paper," she explained. As she progressed, the dimensions of her work grew and took on a more abstract tone to better capture her movement. And yet, her works have kept the sense of harmony and balance despite the shift.
“Art to me is a dance, to recognize the intrinsic flow that permeates everything and to surrender to the current," she said.
S-Ann Ch'i is also a philanthropist and has been supporting local and international charitable institutions since 1998. With her “S-Ann Ch'i Toy Libraries" project, children from different barangays across the country can borrow books and toys for free. She also provides scholarship assistance to underprivileged children.
#Art process/ art style: "Gestural Abstraction. The act of creation demands that I literally work around and inside the painting, the process involves the application of intuition, experimentation, my personal expressions, and improvisational decision making, as well as having to work with the natural forces of gravity for each drop, pour, flow, and a splash of paint onto the canvas, the finished piece is an assemblage of gestures that evoke a sensation from the viewer."
#inspiration: "The raw aesthetics that are captured in the process, the excitement of painting, not a picture but of capturing an “event" into the visual language captivated me."