Life Maps – Ping An / Safe and Sound, framed drawing by Jingwei Bu

Description

This drawing was created at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

In Life Maps series, Jingwei Bu uses intuitive mark-making, as a way of externalising her inner life, a representation of the accumulated joys and suffering of a life lived. She approaches the making of these drawings in the spirit of time-based performance. Allocating each drawing a period of several hours, and working her way around the sheet, Bu’s drawings document her journey into memory, experience and reflection. The quality of the mark-making – from intense repetitive lines, to spiral forms, and number sequencing – evokes a highly personal and idiosyncratic system of thought. Through them Jingwei explores her innate curiosity, sensitivity and capacity for immersion and invites viewers to share in the process and result, a hard-won schematic of the soul.