In Moth (2023), Moth (Blinded Sphinx) (2023) and Moth (Silver Cloud) (2023), Chan carves from shipping pallets sharp triangular fragments that hang on the wall like resting moths in a...
In Moth (2023), Moth (Blinded Sphinx) (2023) and Moth (Silver Cloud) (2023), Chan carves from shipping pallets sharp triangular fragments that hang on the wall like resting moths in a cave. Their plastic surfaces are smoothed over with clay to assimilate petrified wood inlays and natural magnesium. Appearing more viscous than lithic, these sculptures beckon us to once again surmise carefully-could they be strange gothic relics, or organic tar fossils of some winged creature that once fluttered with zest like the short-lived arthropods in Virginia Woolf's The Death of the Moth (1942)? - Joyce Hei-ting Wong