This is my latest artwork finished in May it was and is intended for my one man exhibition in Hong Kong. However due to Covid 19, it will not now be shown until next year. This is the largest artwork I have ever made, even though it only weighs a couple of kilos!
Based upon the attempts at creating a flying machine before the Wright Brothers, Lilienthal was probably the most successful of the early flight pioneers. Purportedly flying several hundred feet in an undocumented attempt. Whilst the work contains an amalgam and the essence of Lilienthal’s designs, it bears little resemblance to the flying machines.
The feathers are screen printed on laser cut plywood and covered in 13 gsm Japanese tissue. The wings are inkjet printed onto 30 gsm Japanese tissue, based upon a Chinoisere wallpaper design, first used in a stately home Wooten-under-Edge in Gloucestershire in the 1780’s which copied the Chinese style. The Cantonese text on the wings are sayings related to my daily life, translated into Cantonese. In the same manner as the slogans one sees on T-Shirts in China and Asia, which have English translations from Chinese, that make little sense to an English speaker.
