When viewing the exhibit of Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe and talking with the artist himself, I couldn’t help but continuously make connections between what he was saying about his artistic process and my own group’s work on our collaborative illumination. For our project, we tried to make references in the artwork that would reflect the poem we were using, but also chose images that could be understood by a modern audience. In a similar way, Yun-Fei Ji spoke about making his own work relevant and taking as many different approaches as possible. How did we as a group take an eighteenth century poem and make it relevant? By taking a few different approaches to our artistic depictions and layout, as Yun-Fei Ji recommended. He also spoke about working with line and space, which my group came into contact with when deciding on the layout and format of our illumination. Hearing Yun-Fei Ji speak on his artistic process and giving advice was incredibly helpful as my group was creating our own work of art.
