VIII. Early Experiments with Light (c. 1997–98)
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Wong turned her attention to a new medium, photography, in the years following her graduate studies. The resulting works are abstract meditations on the relationship between lightness and darkness, between presence and absence. But the themes that predominated her earlier work quietly persist. Embed ’s hidden ropey infrastructure recalls the wall cracks in Crevice , while the hazy red center in Creation evokes the smears in Cherry cloth . The delicate, dangling glass beads in Reverie , meanwhile, foreshadow Wong’s later textile installations.
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Selected Works: Fragments and Experiments
Opposite: Embed , 1998. Photograph. 17 × 21 inches. Creation , 1998. Color photograph mounted on black gatorboard. 17 × 21 inches.
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