Reverse Monotype Series

The reverse monotype series began with small, porcelain-like album leaves created by applying strips of paper coated with ink, mineral pigment, pulverized bronze and iron, to kaolin clay board, letting them dry, and then peeling the paper off, leaving a residue of paper fibers, pigment, metal, and ink. Wang sees this residue as a metaphor for the diasporic experience, trying to piece together the disparate threads of a cultural tradition from the distant past. “The album leaves take major elements of Chinese material culture, porcelain, bronze, ink and paper, and remix them into an altered state. Each material gets to express itself in a way it never did in the past, each material gets to be reborn.”