Some time around mid 2023, Ignatius found some very free flow ink art form posted on IG and coincidentally it was during this period there was this art exhibition on a Taiwan-based Chinese artist, Liu Kuo-Sing's artworks which also adopt this free flow imperfect-is-realism ink artworks that inspired him to artperiment this art form. He would went on to visit the art exhibition on Liu Kuo-Sung's Experimentation As Method numerous times and started to artperiment on float on ink or the Japanese called it suminagashi. It would take him several months of artploration, playing with various Chinese calligraphy inks and more than 10 different types of paper of different weight and grain types; watercolour papers, sketching papers and xuanzhi before he was able to find himself in this new chapter of his time travel in his art journey. Yes, a new chapter perhaps? He is lovin it being a restless artist always game to dare to try on something outside his comfort zone. He will be spending a lot of his time in 2024 to artplore and artperiment in depth on this gestural expressionism abstraction art form which Liu Kuo-Sung said, "It would not be art if you could control your brush strokes" or words to that effect. He is working on meshing all up to create his own own fusion style.
"My Rendezvous with" series
This series was inspired by his time travel to small towns in Malaysia. He loves town hopping. It is time coming to stand still in small towns that he actually travel back in time. A simple pleasure beyond words yet only temporal for a fleeting moment in time. He cherishes that moment.
The series is remembering his fleeting moment in
1. Kluang - Bat Town, his favourite playground which he visits at least once or twice a year since 2014
2. Minyak Beku - A place he first visited in the late 1970s and it would not be until 2023 he visited this place again. He felt like it was a homecoming.
3. Parit Jawa - A small fishing village. Picturesque. Very very charming place. Peaceful. He was reluctant to leave during his visit. So much to absorb and embrace; the sight, the sound, the smell.
4. Segenting - a small Chinese village by the Straits of Melaka. It is for sure time comes to a stand still here. Quaint. Quiet. Serene. Tranquil. "I'll be back."
The painting size is 60cm x 37cm and mounted on 100cm x 42cm scroll.
Towns of the 'My Rendezvous with' series