Wall Paper

Acrylic & Gold Powder Silk-screen Print on Paper Sizes Vary, 2002

The "Wallpaper" series installation is an experiment of interaction between commercial art, which in this case is wallpaper design, and fine arts. In this project, Jiawei used the visual elements from his "Nature" series paintings reproduced, and multiplied on computer. He fused these contrasts of fine art and Pop representations with Surrealistic overtones to deliver a questioning of hierarchy in conventional aesthetics.

Break Game

Chinese Ink & Acrylic on Paper, Play Station & TV Sets.
120" x 160" x 90", 1992

This installation/performance piece is inspired by the video game “Tetris”. Here the artist uses the metaphor of the game to reveal the isolation between people. The fast pace of the modern world and its technology has created invisible barriers - closing channels of deeper more meaningful communication. In the “Tetris” game the players are rewarded after they have finished filling the gaps in a line. Ironically we are rewarded in life by filling the emptiness we feel inside by materialism and its technology.

The Growing Painting

Chinese Ink & Acrylic on Paper
197" x 90", 1992

The idea behind the “growing painting” is to let the artwork take on its own life. By way of osmosis I participate as a partner in a growing together art. This painting consists of many different individual pieces. In a 7-day period, the artist gets impressions from randomly selected pieces, and relocates them into different areas of the painting. The outcome of the work is not predicted. The presence of the artist is to help the artwork in shaping out its own form. A week later, The painting is hatched.