Things you cannot hear

As the noise level here is rather high, I can often decipher up to four sound sources layered in the course of a day, mostly from people, birds and machines. On occasions, I have waited for the sounds to subside to the least audible moment just to discover what is constant. This is usually most present in the night where you are left with a gentle hum from the air regulatory systems installed throughout the houses.

Things you cannot see

One Saturday, when I was approaching the market at 7am, I noticed a soft blue luminosity cast on a single pale yellow sepia shrub. I think the blue tinge was beginning to disappear from the last bit of the night. I wanted to take an image with my iPhone, but before I could do it, everything suddenly lighted up.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Ian Woo, a senior lecturer at LASALLE's McNally School of Fine Arts is an artist influenced by perceptual abstraction and the structures of music improvisation. His paintings are featured in the Phaidon publication 'Art Cities of the Future: 21st Century Avant-Gardes'. Since 2016, Ian has been part of the painting collaborative 'Impermanent Duration – On Painting and Time'.

Credit:
Artist photo by Dylan Woo