Panpsychism : The Physically of Ink

Artist: Hon, Ngan Ting Rebecca
Date: 2 – 12 July 2019
Venue: New Asia College Ch’ien Mu Library
Statement:
“Have things by their motions, while themselves destitute of enjoyment, only to minister to souls as mere stimuli to this mental life” (Hermann Lotze, 1817-1881) .
Panpsychism, is the doctrine or belief that everything material, however small, has an element of individual consciousness. No matter human, animals, plants, even inanimate, also have psychological being. 
The mixing effects of ink and water on Chinese rice paper always unique and unrepeatable. Does that nature movement represents all reality has some level of consciousness, even ink and water?

Rebecca, Hon Ngan Ting is a Hong Kong artist that was born in 80s. Rebecca is specialized in using ink and mix-media as a language; to reconstruct different materials and images. Graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University and University of Sunderland, UK in 2010, she obtained a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design, a professional diploma in Art Administration, Hong Kong Baptist University and a diploma in Creative Cross-Media Illustration and Digital Drawing Techniques from the Hong Kong Productivity Council. She is studying the Master of Arts in Fine Arts (M.A.) at Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Her works have exhibited in various country include China, Taiwan, Singapore, UK etc. Short-Listed of Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition, Taiwan. She is also a member of International Watercolor Society (IWS), Hong Kong and artist member of The Fringe Club Hong Kong.
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