Poetry Paintings: Coal, Ash, and the Materiality of Resistance
This series of five paintings marks my first attempt to stabilize fragile materials such as coal dust, ash, and rust on 30×40 cm canvas. Each work draws directly from classical…
Look On My Works!
Growing up in Jiangxi, coal was part of daily survival—fuel for cooking and warmth, a witness to the endurance and decline of my hometown. Later, I turned cigar smoking into…
To Knot Is to Hope
— and Still I Push the Stone This installation stages the moment a leaf lets go of its branch — a gesture that holds both loss and promise. The wire…
Scarlett Guan
Exploring language, space, and contemporary rituals through art.
Scarlett Guan
Exploring language, space, and contemporary rituals through art.