THIRD EYE WIDE - DavidCow Solo Art Exhibition

Two Halls: Anita Chan Lai-ling Gallery & Fringe Vault

Artist’s Statement:

“Art is the synthesis and purification of the human condition, in motion and in stillness, constructed with light, in a vast emptiness ever-brimming with infinite possibilities, in my artistic paradigm.  Fine arts, Chinese calligraphy and filmmaking are disciplines deeply interwoven in my formal training and exploration over the past three decades, a ricocheting mix of mediums that push boundaries and set new destinations, within and without.  The minds of great masters and creative enquiries of modern artists converge as guiding hands in my pursuits, a serendipity fuelled by studies and lessons in spirituality across cultures and continents, all collectively conspiring to shed light on the nature of reality and the symbols that mark today’s civilisations, courting eyes that are curious and minds that refuse to stop questioning.” 

Exhibition Statement:

“THIRD EYE WIDE” is the journey of the visual or eye faculty in the human experience. 

The Third Eye is the centre of feelings and intuition, and if we were to experience reality through it, what would the external world present?  Is it a world of sensations dictated by our genetic composition and predisposed modes of perception?  Is it a shifting configuration of the sacred geometries that the physical world is constructed from?  Or is it just a performance by the orchestra of neutrons in our brains?  Birds and bees and plants and extraterrestrials see our world differently from our own worldview.  But how different are we as sentient beings?

When the human eye sees itself appear in the realm of visual art, it weaves all surrounding cues and elements together into an experience and an imagination originating from the perspective of the eye.  The artist brings his viewers into the experience of the seer seeing and being seen.

But reality exists in a matrix of energies that the human eye does not see.  If it did, the language of light would strum the chords of our spiritual being and stir the collective visual memory of our species within the vast illusion of time.  The external world is empty by nature yet filled with energy.  If and when the Third Eye opens and sees things as they are, we may find ourselves witnessing the continuous stream of shifting consciousness, a series of moments strung together by threads of knowingness.