Installation at Lane Community College
Handmade Japanese Paper, sumi ink, wire, merino wooll

This installation, called "Mistake Well Taken" emphasizes the importance of the process of art making where we all experience of making mistakes. In fact this analogue experience of making a wrong steps or pondering makes us more creative to find visual and conceptual solutions. Act of making mistake is at glance a defeat, yet in fact it is a stepping stone to go to the next stage in a creative endeavor not a defeat.


I wrote more Han 100 sheets of Heart Sutra and marked every mistake on the calligraphy, and exhibited on the wall and floor. Then I made paper strings from the unsuccessful calligraphy work. Then I spread the paper with the calligraphy, which I repeated wrote, on the floor like a sea of paper.


I made this installation for the students of art, and wanted to encourage them to keep continue the challenging path of creative activities.